Joel Garber

filmmaker | mke bucks enthusiast

[Benjamin @bschne]

Werner Herzog will be the last human being whose next word no language model can predict

[sergio @cruelhandeth]

you do this long enough and you come to realize that there are two very different sides to running a successful project

there's building a product
and there's building relationships

the product building part is fun, iterative, and rewarding by process of execution
> build > deploy > see results

the relationship building part takes time, requires strategy, and doesn't always move at your pace

...but it's what helps grow a product.

i've been in the strategy/relationship building part lately, and even though its an exciting process, its not a community-interactive part of the process.

so i think it's time to reinvest in, spotlight, and support the builders contributing to @Quotrons404 and @xStocksFi on @inkonchain

today i deployed some capital into a top 5 ranked Quotrons Ecosystem Builders NFT collection on Ink and bought back $20,000 worth of $QUOTRONS tokens to help seed some Quotron NFTs into other products being built. these assets are currently held in the "Quotrons_Ecosystem_Fund" wallet on @opensea

i'll be reviewing other ranked projects contributing to the ecosystem and determining where else i can allocate capital to help support you all.

*this is IN ADDITION to the terminal points system btw*

so, lmk what you're building and how I can help?

[New York Film Festival @TheNYFF]

Winner of Best Emerging Director at the 2026 Locarno Film Festival, experimental filmmaker Beatrice Gibson’s feature is a shapeshifting, feminist meditation on the mind and body that follows an array of women over the course of one night in Paris.

Don't miss the U.S. Premiere at #NYFF64 with in-person Q&As on October 3 & 4!

🎟️ on sale this Tuesday at noon: https://t.co/drt9TLfl4V

[zoe kazan @zoeinthecities]

in the immortal words of my co-writer/co-showrunner, yippee ki yi yay motherf*****

[Joel Garber @joelgarber]

You can do it Mike.

[Variety @Variety]

Mike Leigh on the possibility of “Tender Loving Care” being his final film:

"The truth is I’m somewhat handicapped. Making this film was great; people were very helpful. Even if we decided to make another, it wouldn’t get made for two years. I’m 83, and I don’t know what state I’ll be in at 85, if I’m still here. I say it reluctantly, because in terms of energy and ideas, it wouldn’t be a problem. Those around me keep saying there must be a way. I’m skeptical."

https://t.co/JZAG04M99f

[jackie luo @jackiehluo]

stephen wolfram’s obituary for his late wife is so beautiful, what a privilege to love and be loved this way

https://t.co/EZl0fgZm8s

[Tobias Schneider @tobiaschneider]

One of my favorite Joane Didion essays of all time is her 1979 review of Woody Allen movies Manhattan, Annie Hall, and Interiors. A beautiful takedown of the culture of complete self-regard https://t.co/Z3pOooLdXV

[Joel Garber @joelgarber]

Interesting but it’s still a hard no for me.

[Luke Winkie @luke_winkie]

I’m fascinated by the fact that nobody plays Monopoly by the printed rules in the rulebook — which allegedly make the game much faster. Talked to some Monopoly heads about it and played a round myself to see if we’ve been treating the world’s most hated board game unfairly.

[Nathan Marzion @nathanmarzion]

Great Burries summer league breakdown ⬇️

[Joel Garber @joelgarber]

@MarkBellingShow FYI Norm Powell is 33.

[DepressedBergman @DannyDrinksWine]

This scene in "Top Secret" (1984) where Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge go into the Swedish bookstore & talk to the owner, Peter Cushing, was staged, shot in English, and then run backward to make the dialogue sound "Swedish". Playing the scene backwards, all the dialogue is exactly what is shown in the subtitles except for the title of the book that Hillary asks for. The title she actually asks for is "Europe On Five Quaaludes A Day".

Roger Ebert's thoughts on this scene:

"The movie is physical humor, sight gags, puns, double meanings, satire, weird choreography, scatalogical outrages, and inanity. One particular sequence, however, is such an original example of specifically cinematic humor that I’d like to discuss it at length. (Do not read further if you don’t like to understand jokes before laughing at them.)

The sequence involves a visit by the hero to a Swedish bookshop. Never mind why he goes there. The scene depends for its inspiration on this observation: People who run tape recorders backward often say that English, played backward, sounds like Swedish (especially, of course, to people who do not speak Swedish). What “Top Secret!” does is to film an entire scene and play it backward, so that the dialogue sounds Swedish, and then translate it into English subtitles. This is funny enough at the beginning, but it becomes inspired at the end, when the scene finally gives itself away."

("Top Secret!", Roger Ebert, 1984 & IMDb)

P.S: On this day, 42 years ago, "Top Secret" (1984) was released in the USA.

[Luke Winkie @luke_winkie]

I took a trip to one of the last-ever Beach Boys shows, a band that now consists of only one original member -- the eternally controversial Mike Love. I wanted to witness the end of an American institution. Unsurprisingly, it's ending badly.

[Richard Brody @tnyfrontrow]

Disclosure Day is Steven Spielberg's first late film; where he usually plays to the crowd and hedges his bets, here he's self-revealing and reckless, emphatic and unabashedly strange; his own pleasure in making it comes through clearly, and I share in it:
https://t.co/Ymuy6awoUS

[Adrian McKinty @adrianmckinty]

Werner Herzog on the writing process

[Joel Garber @joelgarber]

@creamcityrylo @Shafftybro2 Add Hugo

[Music Box Films @musicboxfilms]

Equally heart-wrenching and critically acclaimed. Coming to select theaters starting July 10.

[Robin @neocruyffista]

As James Gray’s Paper Tiger is currently in premiere at Cannes, here’s a throwback to this legendary clip. It permanently changed my perspective on the movie industry.

[Majestyk Pig @wretchedcretin]

Sterling Hayden on working with Kubrick:

[Joel Garber @joelgarber]

@wretchedcretin This is a revelation.