More than anything it’s about proximity. A person living in NYC/LA or other art centers has it better than someone from Iowa. A person with a film set carpenter father as it better than an engineer from Florida.
It's really funny that we're suddenly in the backwards future where, to promote your new He-Man movie, you have to go into the criterion closet and talk about Paolo Sorrentino films
Absolutely wild that Baz Luhrmann has never received an Oscar nomination for Best Director, especially when it comes to his spectacular work on Moulin Rouge, for which he was nominated in directing at Golden Globes, BAFTA, and DGA
as a 29 year old i get it but at a certain point you gotta accept what happened and understand your adult life is not gonna look like it does in early 00s movies
cinema has moved beyond the “brows” distinction to a much greater degree than any other art which leads to some confusion. it’s fair to say bergman makes high art films, and scorsese makes something else, but it’s absurd to suggest bergman is a tier above on that basis alone
@sm3argleliker@staticbluebat Is that what Raging Bull is really trying to do? It lost to Ordinary People which is more what you're describing in my mind.
It's so funny whenever people are like "it's because of the LEFT that we're overrun by homeless people on the street!" knowing that the real reason is that Ronald Reagan slashed all the funding for low income housing and mental hospitals
I always think of Laughton, Dietrich, and Lanchester as the meat of it but then Tyrone Power pops in with a hysterical objection and it's anyone's game, folks