JPC

Screenwriter • Cinematographer • Editor • Director • NYC • writer/director of comedy series The Disastrous Dating Life of Diane Damone (link below)

[Ted Logan @TedLogan1010]

I wish I knew at the time that the 80s/90s were the pinnacle of existence.

I would have appreciated my time in them more and not been in such a rush.

[crunchyrugger @crunchyrugger]

having dinner at a hotel bar the other night struck up a conversation with a mid-level United Healthcare exec. he told me he puts over $300,000 a year on his company credit card just for entertaining clients. In case you’re wondering why you can’t afford health insurance

[Daniel Kunka @unikunka]

The best lesson from BACKROOMS is this -- just fucking do the thing you wanna do.

Kane Parsons made the shorts, he built a fan base, he reaped the rewards.

Write your spec. Make your short. Sing your song. There's literally no downside to creating.

[𝕷𝖚𝖈𝖎𝖋𝖊𝖗 @LucifersTweetz]

Being an American now is just waking up and being told how much more money the president and his billionaire buddies are stealing, then being expected to act like it’s a normal fucking day.

[Justine Bateman @JustineBateman]

New essay on my RACE TRACK site. A reprint of the first SPIN Magazine piece I did (Fall ‘25) as one of their contributing film editors.

When Did Films Get So Boring?
We Want Our New Genre

Why is nothing new happening in film?
You’ve noticed. Sequel after sequel, unmemorable plots, films you don’t care about discussing the next day.
Yeah, it didn’t use to be like this.
Filmgoers in the 20th century had a bonanza of new genres or styles of film. Every decade birthed two or more. Film started in the 1910s with a big dose of Charlie Chaplin. Sound entered the picture in the ‘20s, and the films got bigger. The 1930s exploded with Gangster Films, Spectacle Films, Musicals, and Slapstick Comedy. In the 1940s came Power Women Films, Film Noir, and Italian Neorealism. The 1950s birthed the Teenager Films (”teenagers” didn’t really exist until that), Alien Scare Films, and Biblical Films. All of these genres were brand new to audiences at the time. Exciting stuff…
(Read the rest of the essay at link below.)

[Todd Spence @Todd_Spence]

Someone edited THE THREE AMIGOS vs. TOMBSTONE and it fits so perfectly 😂🔥

[Lyn🦋 @_ayandamay]

I think one of the most underrated forms of luxury is having enough time to think, read, wander, and romanticize your own life a little.

[Natural Philosophy @Naturalphilosy]

“If I were only interested in facts I would buy the telephone directory of Manhattan. It has four million entries, and they are all correct, but it does not illuminate.”

— Werner Herzog

[.𝔭𝔞𝔯𝔬𝔵𝔶𝔰𝔪.✨🇵🇸 @hackagibson]

this is the most john cassavetes-on-a-bender energy we've seen in years. she is essentially saying: "give me 16mm, a skeleton crew, and three weeks, i'll show you some weird shit."

i'm ready for the no-budget, no-permission, all-vibes era of kristen stewart.

[Variety @Variety]

Kristen Stewart on how the Hollywood studio system is not set up for artists:

"Are we going to like, wait to be chosen like a f---ing golden ticket? Like, 'I got the golden ticket! I can make one f---ing movie!' We need to make more work. There needs to be more work, more output, more connection and less fear and less f---ing bureaucracy and also less making billionaires more f---ing billionaires. It’s driving me insane. We spend so much money, we just like hemorrhage money making stuff in a system that honestly is not designed for us." https://t.co/WHK5J1jGVF

[Horror Losers @horrorlosers]

Más de 50 años antes de los BACKROOMS, Standish Lawder rodó el corto liminal CORRIDOR (1970), donde un desconocido viaja por un pasillo desolado en cuyo final divisa a una mujer a la que no puede alcanzar mientras el recorrido se hace sinuoso y repetitivo https://t.co/YK7QbXjNts

[` @ymmayerr]

not to alarm anyone but is anyone else worried about how fucking stupid everyone is ?

[MP Arizona☀️🏳️‍🌈💙🌵🐕🐕‍🦺🫂💦🏜🐟🌴🎙🌎🌻♍️🌊 @AzPetrich]

I just want to point out....

The amount of money the United States has spent on war in the last 67 days, is roughly the same cost that Bernie Sanders proposed for universal college. So the real question is never can we afford it, it's what we choose to prioritize.

[Dallas Jones 🍿 @deathbydialogue]

If you want 28 DAYS LATER on physical media: JUST BUY THE DVD. It’s cheap and plentiful, especially at used stores. It was shot in SD so it literally cannot look better than DVD quality no matter what type of disc it’s on. Don’t overpay for a scalped blu-ray or the 4K steelbook!

[𝘾𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙜𝙚𝙧'𝙨 𝘾𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙢𝙖 𝘾𝙤𝙧𝙣𝙚𝙧 🎬🇨🇦 @CraigKoban]

In 2026:

▪️VHS turns 50.

▪️DVD turns 30.

▪️Blu-Ray turns 20.

▪️4K UHD BD turns 10.

#SupportPhysicalMedia

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

James Gray argues that studios should be allowed to lose money on their art and specialty divisions, saying those films are cultural investments, not just profit centers.

[guess-what @adolt]

@NYCMayor

[JPC @JosephPConroy]

@CigsMake Everything’s falling apart 😕

[FanZcene 📼💿 @FZscene]

People keep saying we should have never given up physical media. Well physical media and places to buy them still exist. Instead of giving up and succumbing to streaming. Go out and find them. Buy physical again. These places may be few, but you have the power to help them grow.

[Carol Roth @caroljsroth]

The 80s were the peak, and the 90s were the last great decade.