feathers mcgraw

Filmmaker ——— Programming Manager @ Arthouse Cinema (He/Him)

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@Masedawg77 Krimbo’s path to the 2028 presidency starts here

[Tony Tost @tonytost]

Photographs from Wim Wenders' road trip while location scouting for PARIS, TEXAS.

[feathers mcgraw @_equinn]

@jurassicseb @SpectacleNYC This looks so rad, I gotta see it

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@ChangoChutney Basket Case rocks

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@sordijinger Tim’s team lost already 😔

[feathers mcgraw @_equinn]

Sort of reflecting on how THE BRUTALIST and NICKEL BOYS are probably our two most significant films this year. Wildly ambitious conceptualizations executed with precise, innovative craft & a devotion to confronting dark truths of mid-20th Century America.

Decade defining art.

[feathers mcgraw @_equinn]

Tonight’s slate:

THE BRUTALIST 35mm
CLOUD

[feathers mcgraw @_equinn]

Devastating, though maybe the most essential and formally groundbreaking film of the 21st Century thus far. A foundational piece of cinema.

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Seated for @ Chicago Film Festival

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@MugenTalks Gorgeous place! Thrilled I get to see some of my most anticipated films of the year in there over the next couple of days.

[feathers mcgraw @_equinn]

Seated for @ Chicago Film Festival

[Jeff Zhang 张佶润 @strangeharbors]

A Different Man: I loved The Substance, but this is the essential self-hatred text of 2024. Effortlessly smart, a movie with a million layers underneath a cruel, nasty joke of getting exactly what you want. Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson are unbelievable.

[feathers mcgraw @_equinn]

@morrisoncrying Hoping the Hoosiers win the title this year after that beat down Nebraska took yesterday.

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@RomeForReal For sure! That’s sort of what I’m getting at in my rambling, mostly that because the dolly is a fundamental tool, it’s prevalent in AI art not because it’s necessary but because it is just replicating what is common.

[feathers mcgraw @_equinn]

Those who say this looks like AI made it simply lack an understanding of film as language, how complex that language is, AND why “cinematic” AI art really isn’t cinematic even though it will overuse simple (yet fundamental) parts of that language- in this case, a dolly in.

[A24 @A24]

Something else is out there 🏔️ Discover THE LEGEND OF OCHI, a bold new wonder from filmmaker Isaiah Saxon. Starring Helena Zengel, Finn Wolfhard, Emily Watson, and Willem Dafoe. Coming soon.

[feathers mcgraw @_equinn]

So, as this trailer is edited using multiple dolly-in establishing shots (that AI art often tries to replicate), people are conflating a real knowledge of craft with AI art’s oversimplification of cinematic art & language.

[feathers mcgraw @_equinn]

A lot of “cinematic” AI art you see on the internet are misty, fantasy lands & characters, paired with some sort of simple movement, be it dolly in, out & across, etc.

The dolly is so effective in the language of cinema because it draws the viewer in & adds depth to a frame.

[feathers mcgraw @_equinn]

@DarthGroudon I’m headed to Chicago Film Festival next week 🎉

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@cevangelista413 Seeing CLOUD in a couple weeks. The man was working overtime this year!

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I have been waiting for these to return to stores for years.

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@morrisoncrying Nice dude!