𝚈𝚘𝚞 𝚍𝚘 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜, 𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚘𝚗𝚎 𝚍𝚊𝚢 𝚢𝚘𝚞 𝚠𝚘𝚗𝚍𝚎𝚛 𝚠𝚑𝚢 𝚢𝚘𝚞’𝚛𝚎 𝚍𝚘𝚒𝚗𝚐 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚗𝚐𝚜.
CISCO PIKE (1971) is one of those “cusp of the ‘70s” movies, where it's weird how well it understood the decade that was just starting.
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Stomach is churning at your garish AI disneyslop. Loser shit, day is ruined & I’m telling all my friends not to buy tickets to upcoming games @Twins
ℂ𝕒𝕟 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕔𝕒𝕝𝕝 𝕪𝕠𝕦𝕣𝕤𝕖𝕝𝕗 𝕒 𝕞𝕒𝕟?
Today: A silent film we didn’t originally plan on covering.
Is DRAGNET GIRL (1933) an interesting curio from Yasujirō Ozu’s early career? Or is there a good reason you’ve never heard of it?
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ᴀʟʟ ʜᴜᴍᴀɴ ᴛɪᴇs ᴀʀᴇ ᴄᴜᴛ ᴏꜰꜰ ʟɪᴋᴇ ᴀ sᴇᴠᴇʀᴇᴅ ʀᴏᴘᴇ.
Food is tight, so oldheads are left in the woods to die.
THE BALLAD OF NARAYAMA (1958) isn’t quite a moral tale, but its stage inspirations let it unpack uncomfortable ideas in a unique way.
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𝐴 𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑖𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑎 ℎ𝑢𝑚𝑎𝑛 𝑏𝑒𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑤𝑖𝑡ℎ𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑚𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑦.
SANSHO THE BAILIFF (1954), at the Trylon this month for the Kinuyo Tanaka series, is Kenji Mizoguchi's examination of the courage it takes to stand up to systemic cruelty.
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ℍ𝕒𝕣𝕕𝕤𝕙𝕚𝕡 𝕕𝕠𝕖𝕤𝕟'𝕥 𝕒𝕕𝕕 𝕦𝕡.
With A HEN IN THE WIND (1948), Ozu directed future director Kinuyo Tanaka in a story of postwar desperation, its fallout, and some sort of empathy for both.
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Oomf introduced me to Liza Minnelli’s new song last night and I laughed for about 12 minutes. Absolutely batshit production. I wonder if she’s aware of its existence
𝐓𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤 𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐲'𝐥𝐥 𝐧𝐨𝐭𝐢𝐜𝐞?
In COLLATERAL (2004), a collision: Active nihilism and passive hope.
@Cody_BH, @punishedtake & @nintendufus chat about Mann’s only Cruise collab, Foxx’s first really relatable guy & one of The Most LA Movies Ever.
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Most elderly Goombas I’ve met look back on their time in the Bowser Youth with shame, certainly, but also with disquieting melancholy, not entirely unlike the recall of a lost love