jburquist

Filmmaker, Gadfly

[jburquist @jburquist]

"Take Nature's path, and mad Opinions leave;

All States can reach it, and all heads conceive;

Obvious her goods, in no extreme they dwell;

There needs but thinking right, and meaning well."

- Alexander Pope's poem about Twitter circa 1733.

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

TREMORS (1990) is one of those movies that gets more impressive with every rewatch. The script wastes absolutely nothing, every setup pays off. Thirty-five years later and it still works.

[Rajvi @rajvishah30]

today someone in office said that “worrying is the worst way to use your imagination” and that’s easily the best thing Ive heard all week

[Kayla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gifv_Kayla]

Nightfall Darsh // Marathon S2

[Kayla 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ @gifv_Kayla]

Marathon S2

[Avi Roy @agingroy]

Five cancers that used to be death sentences. Pancreatic. Glioblastoma. Triple-negative breast. Renal. Melanoma. The median survival for metastatic pancreatic cancer is still 6 months. Glioblastoma, 15 months.

Now personalized mRNA vaccines are producing complete remissions in some of these patients. Not responses. Remissions.

BioNTech’s pancreatic cancer vaccine has 6-year follow-up data. 8 of 16 patients who mounted an immune response are still alive. For a cancer that kills 95% of patients within 5 years, that's incredible.

Topol’s pyramid here maps the trajectory. From broad checkpoint inhibitors at the base to personalized neoantigen vaccines at the peak. The technology is climbing.

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A R-rated Cut of ‘The X Files: I Want to Believe’ is coming to Disney + on 6/11

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Cinema’s first jump scare Haxan (1922)

[Marathon @MarathonTheGame]

Season 2 is coming June 2

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

They did, it was called America

[Joseph Kahn @JosephKahn]

Thank you but I dislike the term "guilty" pleasure. There is nothing guilty about Torque. Your brain is able to enjoy post irony. One should never feel guilty about being elite.

[This Account Makes You Happy @FeelYouHappy]

A family was filming their volleyball game when an owl suddenly swooped into the frame out of nowhere.😍🥹

[patrick. @imPatrickT]

four insane shots from one movie

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Charles Laughton Directed one masterpiece and left Hollywood

[Vashi Nedomansky, ACE @vashikoo]

Filmed in the Imperial Sand Dunes, near the spot ROTJ shot this scene. 114 degrees on the day!

[Saif @diol2n]

في تركيا: اعتادت قطة ضالة صباح كل يوم وفي نفس التوقيت الذهاب ومعانقة صاحب المحل الذي يدعى فرحات حيات، ويقول ان القطة ماتفوت يوم واحد وبدأت في فعل ذلك بعد ما بدأ يطعمها ويلعب معها قليلا

بدأ يتوافد عليه الزبائن في المحل فقط لمشاهدة هذا الحدث

[Ebru Yıldırım @Ebruyldrm_88]

Paris, Texas (1984 dir. Wim Wenders) (Cinematography by Robby Müller)

[Kambit 🃏 @UncannyKam]

“I think history’s going to regard that as the world’s most expensive indie film.”

-Jay Baruchel on Batman v Superman

[nour @0CEANKNIVES]

famed anecdote from val kilmer's memoir about tony scott crying about getting the sunset on film