In 2010 I saw Streetlight Manifesto in San Diego and a guy in the pit was wearing a banana costume. When the lead singer saw him he demanded he get up on stage and do a stage dive. I remember he yelled “Get that banana up here—elevate that fuckin’ banana, man!”
Instead of a Wolverine game they should do a Beast game where Kelsey Grammer reprises the role. Also he’s not blue and he has a brother named Niles and he has to host the perfect dinner party for Seattle’s finest
I'm not gonna defend Marty for that AI storyboarding bullshit but again I think there's something to be said about AI tech bros approaching older filmmakers and only selling them on the potential benefits of AI and not the downsides and ethical problems, like they did with Lynch.
at last saw the powerful/disturbing "The Secret Agent" (Brazilian, in Portuguese) which was nominated for an Academy award last year; directed by much-admired Kleber Filho & with a brilliant (if heartrending) performance by Wagner Moura, the first Brazilian actor to have been nominated for an Academy Award.
this is indeed a grueling experience at nearly 3 hours of achingly "real" realism set beside which our American blockbusters "Sinners" & "One Battle at a Time" (also Academy Award nominees/ winners) are big/bombastic/Broadway-amplified entertainments that scarcely share the planet with "The Secret Agent."
with all respect for American filmmaking, just a few minutes saturated in this quietly terrifying film reveal to us the difference between enormous American affluence in film budgets & that of the rest of the world, of "indie" masterpieces.