it’s easier to understand historically how people stayed in an encroaching fascist state instead of fleeing/fighting when you see how many people just stayed on this app
@c0mmunicants and he pushed it a power higher in The Return, individual suffering as universal redemption (and individual ego of heroism dooming everyone)
If we’re gonna have a second Satanic Panic may as well lean in:
four tabletop terrors play this month at Spectacle in CRITICAL FAILURE: ROLE PLAYING HORROR
https://t.co/6q00hBGo2y
"Their movies lifted directly from Indian and European formulas, applying genre-blending masala conventions to Hammer horror tropes with a workmanlike approach prioritizing efficiency over artistry... If horror is where a culture’s id runs rampant, the Ramsays captured the fears and fantasies of a recently secularized country grappling with its ancient past, colonial legacy, and Westernized ideas of modernity during a turbulent era."
Revisit Danielle Burgos (@rarerborealis) on India's groundbreaking horror film family, The Ramsays:
https://t.co/q3zLKikfvq
"First as tragedy, then as farce, finally as musical; abstracting the ongoing disaster is the only way to process it."
Danielle Burgos (@rarerborealis) writes on OFFICE, screening at @MoMAFilm as part of "Chaos and Order: The Way of Johnnie To." https://t.co/xWSAXJJaOf
So apparently, famous action director Corey Yuen has passed away ☹️ (it seems Jackie Chan said so on his Weibo account). Truly one of the greatest action designers to have ever lived. So many of his works are among my favourites. Sharing a few here to celebrate his genius.
it takes a special combo of economic security and ennui to look at the world post-Watergate, post-GLADIO (and pre-9/11) and think, they’re definitely covering up aliens
produced the new blu-ray release of the 90s teen sci-fi oddity AMANDA AND THE ALIEN — an honor to get to work with the great @willow_catelyn and @rarerborealis on a pair of video / audio essays for it
https://t.co/8oV6uhZmEQ
📓Today in the Journal: Danielle Burgos (@rarerborealis) on the dynamic heist film Topkapi (1964) that embodied the electricity of both its filmmaker Jules Dassin and star Melina Mercouri. https://t.co/lGAYdeWQii