There are only two respectable ways for choosing which books to read. One is a good friend suggesting a book, the other is letting your instinct guide you toward a book like a hunter tracking his target in the woods.
All other ways, such as suggestions by strangers or recommendations in public articles, leave you feeling you're reading a cheap whore.
@bronzeagemantis This is an amateurish direct-to-video production, if anything this will bring him further away from any real roles. Armie is in the gutter. Someone...must save him. He is a good actor.
George Cukor on Sergei Eisenstein:
"I never really understood what Sergei Eisenstein was about. When I came in he had a book out and I’ve never really understood it. I saw the pictures he did and I was very impressed with them, but I never really understood what his theory was. And I pity the poor young people who are required to study that."
(Peter Bogdanovich's interview with George Cukor, 1969)
Clip from:
Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Director: Sergei Eisenstein
Please read THE foundational text on this! Once you're fed moving pictures, you stop generating your own. The faculty goes quiet because something else is doing the imagining for you. Everything online is downstream from this. This is more important than McLuhan or Elul.
@RamboVanHalen Exactly right. The plan can be very simple. Identify young filmmakers with talent. Give them money. Let it be known you are giving them money. Watch how young people adjust their content to get your money.
@jinijane_ I think because despite him not having the same higher standards of education as the other brothers, he is intellectually on their level and he does psychologically understand the others but chooses a different a-moralistic path. If I had to guess he had the highest IQ.
https://t.co/vVw46rAt4q is a new database of (almost) every NGO that’s been involved in mass migration. 18,281 entries — and counting.
This is a very important project. I suggest you check it out.
The French Army has developed its own large-language model for staff officers, called Berthier, named after Napoleon’s chief of staff. https://t.co/c4smzMJpNw
@sailaunderscore Directors who self fund their movie are not paid while working on it for 6+ months. Actor could have asked to get paid in points, but she didn't, because 99% of indie films do not break even.