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since opportunities for writers continue to dry up, i’ve decided to open the Electric Dreams newsletter to outside contributors. if you have ideas for essays, reviews, short fiction etc. feel free to reach out (yes, i will pay you for your work): electricdreams92
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the last decade of liberal identity politics has been leading up to this very moment
Ghislaine Maxwell breaks silence via an attorney on impending Epstein list release: "It’s all about men abusing women for a long period of time… and it’s only one person in jail—a woman."
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nothing exemplifies the vapid posturing of a lot of “creative” types during the trump era better than childish gambino dropping this and then joining the andrew yang campaign the following year
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the reviews in question:
Ayo Edebiri on possibly quitting her movie-reviewing activity on Letterboxd:
“I saw this interview where Willem Dafoe was like, ‘The reason I keep working is that nobody knows my taste.’ Because comedy is my bedrock, expressing my opinions is something I’m so used to in my
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the ease with which youtubers reheat decades-old debates and concepts while convincing their viewers that they came up with something new is astounding
I think we're in the "Metamodern Era" of film. Movies like Nope, Babylon, Once Upon a Time In Hollywood, The French Dispatch, and many more, have a distinct feeling that I think is an evolution from Postmodern filmmaking to Metamodern filmmaking.
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same story with run the jewels. radical cosplay, nothing in the way of actual praxis. singing “kill your masters” while owning rental properties and going on tv to
cry about looters lol
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“Ms. Maxwell, please name the men involved in your sex trafficking operation.”
“Your Honor, it’s not my job to educate you.”
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artists should tackle whatever subject matter they feel drawn to. it doesn’t have to be more complicated than that
Genuinely curious: Does everyone feel that stories about indigenous people should ONLY be tackled by members of said indigenous people? I was under the impression that FLOWER MOON was made hand-in-hand with the Osage Nation, but apparently even that's considered insensitive?
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@IndieWire
i’d be very curious to hear where he is finding all of these rough gay sex scenes in film lol love hearing a straight man’s opinion on what gay sex in art should be though
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we’re leaving complaining about letterboxd joke reviews in 2023
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@BKWelles
after having a fun night with two cute girls who both wanna stay in touch: “i fucking lost. it’s over”
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people naming a foreign film as their favorite = bad
japanese people naming a foreign film as their favorite = good
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remember when he tried to convince us that Love and Thunder was queer cinema? why did he do that?
Taika Waititi joined the Marvel Cinematic Universe for the money.
"I had no interest in doing one of those films. But I was poor and I’d just had a second child, and I thought, ‘You know what, this would be a great opportunity to feed these children.' And ‘Thor,’ let’s face it —
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gonna have to disagree with many of my mutuals here and say i’m not sure what indispensible insight is being offered in this thread
I HAVE THOUGHTS. I HAVE STRONG FEELINGS.
This film was painful, grueling, unrelenting and unnecessarily graphic.
A thread. 🧵
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one of the most fascinating things about Taylor Swift is that, aside from always being at least 5 years late to the party, she causes every aesthetic she embraces to die immediately
All’s fair in love and poetry... New album THE TORTURED POETS DEPARTMENT. Out April 19 🤍
📷: Beth Garrabrant
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those years also produced people like ziad ahmed who used the most vapid kind of progressive virtue signaling to springboard his career as a DEI entrepeneur/state department stooge
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@legotrillermoth
hilarious that the “classy, sophisticated villain” trope made this person question if the nazis were really as evil as everyone says
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i've always been a huge AI skeptic but this dumbass "short film" that looks and sounds like one of those soul-deadening "inspirational" commercials that megacorporations shit out to launder their image has finally changed my mind
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the entirety of recorded music being available to us through the internet is an argument for *more* music writing, not less
The death of music journalism is kinda odd to me but also makes sense as a byproduct of streaming platforms; wider access to music means people don’t need to rely on critics, gatekeepers as much to pre-vet for them what’s good and what isn’t
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@punishedgarage
i’m sure she put her entire life on hold when she learned about slave labor in the prison system and how it’s constitutionally protected by the 13th amendment
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can we please give shit like this a rest?
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the fact that accounts dedicated to film and film history are promoting this AI backwash is genuinely sad, especially at a time when studios (and the useful idiots that cheer them on) are pushing this technology as a replacement for artists and writers
A trailer for how a STAR WARS reboot by Wes Anderson might go. Impressive stuff by
@CuriousRefuge
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waving the pride flag while standing on the ruins of a city you just bombed. hard to think of a better way to sum up end-stage liberalism
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this shit is so lame. using religious imagery to generate controversy for like the third time in your career and then posting a 5-minute video where you explain yourself because people got offended. it’s all perfectly calibrated for the media cycle and it’s boring as fuck
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ever since i saw my first Kiyoshi Kurosawa film many years ago, i haven’t gone a single day without thinking about his work. a true master
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most of it is Jacobs saying that the movie made her uncomfortable, that showing dead indigenous women is “normalizing” violence against them, or complaining that “film nerds” liked the movie. how is any of this good or interesting criticism?
Being Native, watching this movie was fucking hellfire. Imagine the worst atrocities committed against yr ancestors, then having to sit thru a movie explicitly filled w/ them, w/ the only respite being 30min long scenes of murderous white guys talking about/planning the killings
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when you’re a former CIA agent who’s definitely not on the Clinton payroll:
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@JesseAndClarke
that’s really not an expectation i have. i don’t have to agree at all with the art i consume. just making an observation since i felt like this video and it artist was emblematic of the culture at the time, for better or worse
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describing a book as “unadaptable” is producer shit. please stop talking like that
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here's 7 pink films i really like because why not?
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her point about the osage characters being underwritten is valid as is her desire for more films made by indigenous filmmakers, centered on more than just indigenous suffering—i agree with her. but the rest… i read stuff like that from twitter randos every day
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@DustinTheFella
“this goes out to a man watches porn and went on a podcast where someone else did an offensive accent”
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@IndieWire
pretty much
@capybaroness
So much gay sex in movies is just about gay men having sex. The goal of my new movie is to have all the cache gay sex affords me without any of the gross stuff like men fucking each other
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is it not generally agreed upon that the current trend towards “everything apps” is making the apps shittier?
Can someone explain why anyone cares that letterboxd is adding tv shows
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@sponge_boi_
@vizwatcher
“did you know it’s based on a comic book? that’s why the visuals are so over-the-top and crazy, cause edgar wright (the director) was trying to recreate the comic book aesthetic”
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that’s right, the point of Twin Peaks is that you’re not allowed to think women are hot
Starting to think some of you missed the point of Twin Peaks
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@PetreRaleigh
also betrays a stunning lack of imagination to have a wizarding world be this drab mirror of real life where math class is just called potion class or whatever
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if i see one more post about “media literacy” or “consuming media” i might actually lose it
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fuck it, does anyone want the Megalopolis screener?
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@khalidbinyaqub
“absolutely wild to see self-described leftists refusing to condemn this guy”
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this seems like a predictable consequence of certain groups being underrepresented: surface-level criticism like this is elevated for lack of visible alternatives that might have actually insightful things to say
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just watched Longlegs. someone should really let Osgood Perkins know that not every single shot has to be framed the exact same way
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@cleoofffilm
on what planet are marriage story, dune, no country for old men or coda hard to understand?
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this goes beyond industry plants. this is just a blatant right-wing astroturfing campaign
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please be serious
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block the people that annoy you, read your friends’ reviews instead, and maybe watch some stuff that these jokers don’t know about every once in a while. there, fixed it for you
tryn see challengers reviews and its so cool that letterboxd is just useless now
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should there be more opportunities for indigenous filmmakers? absolutely. but making cities affordable again would probably do a lot more to help marginalized voices than this DEI-tier shit. this is the ideology of PMC strivers
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i must have watched this video a million times: Shellac playing Wingwalker at This Is Not a Love Song Festival in france. the noise Albini’s guitar makes is so fucking nasty
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i say this with love in my heart: if you’re gonna post movie stills please just give us the titles. alt text or a follow-up tweet is all it takes
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@SlaylerJ
sorry to say but you have no business discussing literature, let alone presenting yourself as someone with any insight that is worth people’s money
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it's becoming increasingly clear that Zendaya just doesn't have "it"
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@PetreRaleigh
yeah he endorsed yang and became a “creative consultant” for his campaign. two peas in a pod
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@OrcGirlBoss
topless guy is definitely trying to get maimed by wearing a loose chain while operating heavy machinery
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@jenbrained
@BKWelles
hearing bill clinton call other people “dangerous sexual predators” is also pretty hilarious
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identity politics will have you thinking Taiki Waititi could bring more to a film like Killers of the Flower Moon than Martin Scorsese. it’s about time we left this stuff in 2016
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y’all ever realize how white people have no culture??? 😂😂 we’re so lame!! 😂🤣🤣
Being a white American is funny because if I'm in a room full of white people, our only common ground is being white. There aren't culturally white references or experience that bind us culturally. We just stand around awkwardly realizing we have nothing in common.
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well look who’s back in the news:
so when are we getting the deep dive on Ashton Kutcher’s ties to the CIA, scientology, the Clinton Foundation, his BS anti-child trafficking org, the “red wine stains” story, and his involvement in the tech industry?
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@BrndnStrssng
a real virgin vs chad situation with Derrickson and Snyder. i say this as one of the 5 people on earth who actually likes Derrickson’s Hellraiser movie
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what are these people protesting exactly? israel already gets billions of dollars in military aid and is currently carrying out a genocide with zero repercussions
This is how Israelis demonstrate. It's a positive party at MIT!
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hilarious how some filmmakers are just out here repeating twitter talking points verbatim. even a film’s runtime can’t just be a creative decision anymore, it has to be reduced to virtue signaling nonsense about “making room for others”
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alright let’s try this again: here’s 7 pink films i really like (copyright-friendly edition)
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"the call has been coming from inside the house" strikes me as a total misreading. if anything, the exact opposite is the case
one of my fav podcasts recently asked how Biden-era Cinema will be remembered. think my email was a little long for airtime, but i postulated that Longlegs is the epitome - faith in our past and institutions hollowed, the idea that the call has been coming form inside the house
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good bit to talk about cultivating mystique around your tastes and opinions when this is what you’re putting out there lol
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i’m really looking forward to seeing more of these progressive zoomer politcians dress up in cool windbreakers and doc martens to go onstage at the yassified pop punk show right after voting to cut social programs and restart student loan payments
Very grateful for this moment. I’ve been practicing in the shower for YEARS
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this has been the midwit line on Spielberg forever and it’s hilariously reductive. in what world is Schindler’s List about “success?”
“The great difference between a Kubrick and a Spielberg, is Spielberg is more successful. His films make much more money, but they’re comforting. They give you answers; always, the films are answers. I don’t think they’re very clever answers.”
--- Terry Gilliam
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i’m excited for Megalopolis because it will likely be the last maverick project we’ll get on this scale for a long, long time. but seeing all the handwringing about the film’s commercial viability on one side and the heckin epic grampa posting on the other is extremely grating
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moving into my own apartment at 31 🥳 can’t wait to call it home
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@DocNoirII
i honestly don’t think it will be seen as a mark on his work and i don’t think it should. history will remember the films and not his reasons for not making more. it’s a concern now but nobody talks about kubrick’s work that way for instance
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yes, “snobbery” is our culture’s most pressing issue. not the endless stream of corporate garbage that is being shoved down our throats with the help of useful idiots like this
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people (even critics) keep using this line but i can’t figure out how saying a film made you feel uncomfortable is supposed to be criticism
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rewatched Blade Runner two days ago and the fact that Sean Young’s career fizzled out in the ‘90s is a real shame. this was only her third on-screen appearance and she was already such a mesmerizing presence
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two days later:
Dying Gazans Criticized For Not Using Last Words To Condemn Hamas
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shocked to find out that this dead-eyed racist who smiles like a serial killer worked for the US State Department and was a national security advisor under Obama
This man wearing a green jacket was berating and harassing a halal cart vendor off 83rd and 2nd Ave in NYC. Does anyone know who this man is? Planning to report to the authorities.
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@gina_scooter
three minutes of talking just to say nothing at all. oh yeah baby, Obama’s back!
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@tinacohendang
@femaleuncle
being in your 70s and still feeling like a teenager “inside” sounds like hell
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just watched Monkey Man and appreciated how angry and bloody it was—but that’s about it. the criticism re: lack of establishing shots are dork shit but the film is textbook “elevated” genre fare, complete with endless slo-mo trauma flashbacks and hollow political posturing
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@madison_tayt
a woman looking at the camera and smiling while talking about food is love bombing actually
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