Man of Fine Taste

I enjoy all the meats of our cultural stew

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@ClarkeMicah A wonderful appreciation of this very fine film. Thank you for sharing.

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@walterneff8 @ClarkeMicah @goodison2 Foreign Correspondent is a great minor Hitchcock film and it’s not hard to understand why Peter Hitchens might be particularly drawn to it.

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@nguyenhdi The greatest Macbeth on film comes from the snatches of Verdi’s opera in Dario Argento’s Opera.

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@VitoComedy How I be shaking my damn head when I see this brazen behaviour

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@si_rubinstein The entire idea that MAGA cares about the UK at all is absurd. The crowds are always empty when Farage addresses CPAC.

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@Greensharkfin @spandrell4 This would be a great explanation if men and women retired at wildly different rates. Do you have any evidence to support this bizarre premise?

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@douglassmackey Some people think truth is determined by consensus. Other people think truth is determined by what is true.

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@revenant_MMXX It’s amazing how a proposition as retarded as “the threat of punishment is never a deterrent” has just become a thing that many people blindly assume as true beyond all question.

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@10_cow_wife @Maxwolf333 @Weetoed189328 No they don't. Admission to Cambridge is based on rigorous academic screening and cannot be bought. This isn't an American university with legacy admissions.

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@letterboxd They forgot to include the four hour Belgian movie about a bored housewife doing dishes. Must not have got the memo that it is officially the greatest film of all time now.

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@WillSloanEsq @emefzoom @putxiwhipped5 @da_yoyo_master You attempted to show I was wrong, appealing to principles of construction that stand outside of subjective taste but are, unfortunately for you, clearly insufficient to constitute meaningful artistic merit.

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@WillSloanEsq @emefzoom @putxiwhipped5 @da_yoyo_master You do know what I think though. You tried appealing to impersonal standards to justify Jeanne Dielman to me earlier. It’s just that it was a very thin defence that amounted to “something is introduced and pointed to intermittently, and I think it looks nice”, exposing the farce.

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@WillSloanEsq @emefzoom @putxiwhipped5 @da_yoyo_master Well no, the alternative you propose does not require anything because you subscribe to the philistine belief that art is subjective and we all just value different things because we’re different. How exactly does this approach to art involve any work whatsoever?

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@WillSloanEsq @emefzoom @putxiwhipped5 @da_yoyo_master Well no, because the elaboration of these things is a substantial task that cannot be reduced to a tweet. The fact that you think it ought to be might go some way towards explaining why you struggle with the idea of reasoned aesthetic judgment in general.

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@WillSloanEsq @emefzoom @putxiwhipped5 @da_yoyo_master Well that is quite obviously unreasonable isn’t it.

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@WillSloanEsq @emefzoom @putxiwhipped5 @da_yoyo_master Through the medium of X, the Everything App?

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@WillSloanEsq @emefzoom @putxiwhipped5 @da_yoyo_master You would like me to write a treatise on aesthetics via the medium of X, the Everything App?

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@da_yoyo_master @WillSloanEsq @putxiwhipped5 The female directed films have been over promoted in the list because of activism and social pressure causing people to think they ought to include token movies by women. Hope this helps.

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@emefzoom @WillSloanEsq @putxiwhipped5 @da_yoyo_master Because something can be evaluated by reasonable impersonal standards does not mean that it can be quantified and rank ordered among other things of its type.

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@FinanceDirCFO An AI chatbot, run by a company that is bleeding money, that can make purchases for you without your permission. Gee I wonder where this is going...