NEW- In this season finale, Bart & Jenna kick start their engines and take off into biker movies of 1969 – featuring cinematic classic, Easy Rider, and a film they deem genuinely evil, Satan's Sadists. Listen: https://t.co/rguBF4RFfq
Jenna’s top ten features a whole lot of foreign releases and female directed films – including those about the ancient past, dystopian and utopian futures, satanic temptations and howling good times. Read: https://t.co/BdHnREMe2O
My h-o-t-t-o-g-o hot takes of 2024, a month late as always. Including many foriegn and woman directed films, and a rant about all the bad faith criticism of Megalopolis. Enjoy
Jenna’s top ten features a whole lot of foreign releases and female directed films – including those about the ancient past, dystopian and utopian futures, satanic temptations and howling good times. Read: https://t.co/BdHnREMe2O
NEW- Veronica’s top twelve new-to-her watches include dopplegangers, sandworms, traveling through the abyss and Channing Tatum being a creep. Read: https://t.co/Y9Te2PX00P
RIP Jules Feiffer. His comics are still as funny and relevant today as they ever were. Not to mention his amazing screenplays for Little Murders and Carnal Knowledge, to name a few.
"Businessmen became politicians and were acclaimed as statesmen, while statesmen were taken seriously only if they talked the language of successful businessmen."
— Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism
david lynch struggled to get financing for his new film right before he passed. john waters just canned a film for the same reason. our greatest artists are aging and no studios are interested in funding the auteurs whose influence shaped the artform while they’re still with us
I’ve always loved David Lynch’s brand of humor & joy, that radiated through everything he did including his most upsetting scenes. Leaning into those unsettling contradictions, those giant question marks in the sky — the more ridiculous, the more terrifying they were.
NEW- With the death of David Lynch, Jenna reflects on how she loved his brand of joy and sense of humor – the likes of which radiated through everything he did, including his most upsetting scenes. Read: https://t.co/5Glm6TQUIP
I’ve always loved David Lynch’s brand of humor & joy, that radiated through everything he did including his most upsetting scenes. Leaning into those unsettling contradictions, those giant question marks in the sky — the more ridiculous, the more terrifying they were.