you need to watch this if you never have before
it’s horny as fuck, camp as hell, and Hugh Grant & Peter Capaldi have some of the BEST hair EVER to be seen in film, right up there w/ Julia Roberts in Flatliners
My favorite bit is the vigilante HVAC technician who breaks into people's houses to fix the AC for free out of civic duty, because government bureaucracy is so stagnant and corrupt nothing actually gets fixed even in an emergency.
Type of guy that's nearly extinct today.
I said this about AI well over a year ago. Using it to diagnose and fire people with medical conditions so they lose their insurance AND their income is somehow even more heartless and evil than I’d predicted.
RIP Sam Neill (1947-2026)
Sam Neill on why "The Piano" (1993) is an important movie in Cinema history:
"I don’t think I can overestimate how important 'The Piano' (1993) is for me in hindsight. It sits on my funny old CV like a medal on my chest. It wasn’t my film. It was Jane Campion's. I wasn’t the star of the film. That was Holly Hunter. But there is honour to be found in the second fiddle. Or fourth. No one notices you much, you don’t get nominated for things. But you served. I was there in an important feminist film. I was there on the front line in an important New Zealand film. Neither of these labels does the film justice. It’s a work of art. And look, that tiny little figure in the fabric— see down there on the right—that’s me. It’s a film that will always have a place in cinema history. And I served in it."
("Did I Ever Tell You This: A Memoir", Sam Neill, 2023)
I made a site for artists to get museum-level references since Pinterest has been a bit frustrating lately.
Open forever.
Free forever.
No AI images ever.
https://t.co/xaA9w82BBN
Funniest thing about the Central Europe heat wave fuss is that, all of a sudden, the Spanish siesta, closing stores mid-day, and dinner at 10 PM doesn’t sound so lazy Southerners.
We had 35 degrees for centuries before AC existed. Welcome to our life. You will get better at it.