Kiyoshi Kurosawa: "I recently rewatched "A Brighter Summer Day" when it had a revival screening, and I was struck by how blatantly influenced I am, to the point of being almost disgusting." https://t.co/i5QtR60h4a
now that we're feeling a lot of happy thoughts about Scorsese, i do think back on Godard in 1988 saying:
"As for Scorsese, [the politics of the auteur] does him a lot of good: he's a fairly average filmmaker, but passes for a great mind, good for him . . ."
All of this could have been avoided if Martin Scorsese, surely confused by the Svengali-like spell the AI tech bros put on him, had just listened to a 24 year old Letterboxd user who has referred to both Michael Mann and William Friedkin as “ball knowers”.
Brakhage: “I sometimes think we have more artists in America right now than we have appreciators… But a man that can understand a poem is equal to the poet who made it, who may in fact not understand it so well himself.”
@jonathanmb32@capybaroness dude that’s so fucking interesting thank you and wow so true about the future of Hollywood crap nobody cares about. I like how you’re not even with a publication or something you just sit around thinking about production budgets and advertising all day as like a hobby
@woop54 common Scorsese L tbh. (side note; a year ago actually i was at a bar talking to a girl who had attended a guest lecture from him in uni, Ireland i think, and this was like many years ago, where he was already gassing up the potentials of AI in cinema's future)