Still here, still doing this (mainly because it’s useful to remind myself what I’ve seen so I can log it on letterboxd) but anyway starting again in 2026, thread of what I’m watching and rewatching
1. Paris is Burning (1990)
Directed by Jennie Livingston
Roy Scheider has no lines in this scene and yet those brief shots of his sad expressions make him feel as essential to the scene as Ann Reinking’s incredible dancing
Thought this was exaggerating and then this was all in 1 minute of scrolling
I get that complaining about right wing ai slop in this app has real Dead Dove energy to it but still
Netflix’s film boss says “there’s a group of filmmakers who still want theatrical” that they’ve “accepted we just won’t work with.”
“One mistake I made when I first joined the company,” Dan Lin told the Times, “was that filmmakers always said to me, ‘Please tell me the truth.’ And when I told them the truth, they might not have wanted to hear it. So now I’m learning how to better read people. And if someone tells me they want to hear the truth, I tell it in a way that can be as productive as possible.”
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