WFS auteur routes H2 2026
Robert Altman
John Carpenter (who hates Altman’s films, and we’ll explore why)
David Lynch
Roman Polanski
Indie films isolated
My dinner with Andre
Twin Peaks, The Return
Indie-style TV
Babylon 5
January 2027
Orson Welles
F is for Fake
Chimes at Midnight and Shakespeare ramp up with live interviews at Folger Library and Welles character study.
Citizen Kane
WFS movies next two weeks.
Robert Altman
This week: The Player
Next week: Secret Honor
Third week: The Long Goodbye
No, we won’t watch Nashville because to laud it has become trite. And it’s not the only pathway to experience Altman’s intellect.
There's a trend on YouTube: millennials starting channels, and the first video is "I was fired" or "I was laid off." I see a bunch of these sprouting up. It's all the same basic premise.
If clashes and turmoil subside in the US-Iran saber clinks with post-fire terms, this isolates China. If it pans out, the major warm water ports (minus Ukraine) are off the board. The illicit energy trade that props up these US adversaries and abates the West's economic model.
If US-China relations are restored on bilateral economic terms. And Taiwan becomes a probable Hong Kong fate: what does the US Defense industry isolate as its existential threat?