The New York Times profile of @jordan_harper is the only NYT profile I’ve ever seen that begins like this:
“COKE! SEX! LIES!”
Read it, then read his new book, A VIOLENT MASTERPIECE, out April 28th.
https://t.co/Fha6iGBD04
The Juice is @OHMPods monthly movie club and podcast. Each month, four films. One theme. We watch, we pod. This month: Yakuza Eiga, with bestselling crime novelist and screenwriter @jordan_harper joining as Special Jury President. https://t.co/aIYmD0n6Rt
Influencers are the private equity of culture: draining whatever’s “cool” until higher prices and worse experiences push out the original fan base. Then they move on to the next thing, leaving the original to die as fans lose interest or the ability to participate.
HEAVY SUGAR comes out four months from today. Thankful to four of my favorites for the great words. Would sure appreciate if you’d consider preordering it: https://t.co/7Mbs5ibedy
Just watched the pilot of THE SHIELD. Nuclear levels of mean spirited. Shot better than 99.9% of movies. “Bawitdba” is used in full. One of the greatest things I’ve ever seen.
I wrote about why you find Michael Mann’s MIAMI VICE to either be a beguiling, blood-hot masterpiece of postmodern melodrama, or a failure of big-budget action film expressionism.
https://t.co/GLh3CIwZW7
I wrote for @BWDR about MIAMI VICE, "a darkly sumptuous masterpiece of eroticism and romanticism, of action and abstraction, of fragmented flows of raw and overwhelming emotional information whose meanings only gain momentum with time."
🎨: @bturnerinfo
https://t.co/GLh3CIwZW7
This sucks. A giant and a genius of filmcraft. You work on Ghostbusters and Jurassic Park and Star Wars and RoboCop and you end up having to shut up shop and sell all your shit to the highest bidder. https://t.co/QzINELyCVC
i used to watch this clip religiously and was so captivated by her talent and unmistakable charm. today the world is a darker place without dolly parton
If you like movies that are good, and seeing a master at the top of his game in control of every stitch in a period mystery, then I give my highest Movie Mindset recommendation to The Samurai and the Prisoner. Run don't walk!
seems to me as I get older that (1) almost all institutions are totally broken, but also that (2) most never "worked" to begin with, and (3) we're living through the throes of a concerted multigenerational effort to make any kind of public life either impossible or simply insane
SURVIVING THE LIE is out today, along with the rest of the Russell Avery series!
"Avery narrates his own story with delightfully caustic wit. Readers will leave with an appreciation of just how endangered and how valuable contemporary journalism is." -- Booklist