In memory and honor of Frederick Wiseman, who took hold of a still-young format and, guided from the start by an unyielding sense of principle, made a body of work so original, idea-rich, and unified that it seems foreordained—a historic fusion of investigation and the inner life
just heard that Frederick Wiseman has passed away. the power of his filmography can't be summed up in a single post. a filmmaker of incomprehensible brilliance. i am completely crushed today.
Can't be on the ICE resistance frontlines? Here's how to help.
Street vendor buyouts, grocery drives and other ways to sustain support for immigrants targeted by ICE.
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How many people are hearing about Albert Serra for the first time ever because of this news (please watch PACIFICTION and AFTERNOONS OF SOLITUDE, one of the best films and documentaries of the decade respectively)
Leonardo DiCaprio interviews Paul Thomas Anderson
Leo: "You are considered a very art-house director. Would you call it that? What do you call it?"
PTA: "Well, there’s no need to be insulting"
Leo: "You don’t do incredibly commercial movies, let’s put it that way. You are a writer, director. You have your own vision. What’s the term?"
PTA: "Box-office challenged?" 😂
(via @Esquire)
"Cop history and cop politics, cop dynasties, cop heroes and evildoers, saintly cops and psycho cops, cops too stupid to live and cops too smart for their own good ... Insulated by secret loyalties and codes of silence from the world they'd been given to control."
@johnsemley3000 nobody knows about this seemingly but for $100 a year NFL+ gives you those games, all primetime games, redzone, and your local National TV games
in retrospect absolutely absurd that philip seymour hoffman wasn’t in more than one coen bros movie because he might give the funniest performance in any of them