Sorry to overdose on hopeium but I still choose to believe both her and Tom Steyer are gonna advance and then defeat their one on one opponents in November 🥱
Nobody talks about how filmmaking is the hardest of the arts to practice. You can play guitar. Do stand up. Dance alone. You need to write/shoot/edit to get better and that's a lot of work. Both these kids put in HUNDREDS of hours doing that and you can't discredit the hustle.
boots riley is my biggest tonal inspiration for basically all the work that i do and i got my ass to a sunday matinee of i love boosters because of his social media activity. boots are you proud of me
This is why any discourse surrounding Zendaya on here never really moves me. She is constantly praised by the greats, those who know the craft and the industry. Y’all can nitpick all day, but she stays respected, championed, & favored by those whose opinions actually carry weight
Mayor Zohran Mamdani mocks Ronald Reagan’s infamous quote.
“I can think of nine words more terrifying than ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help…’”
“I worked all day and can’t feed my family.”
u can shit on Boots Riley, but its clear that his results are net-positive. Consoomers love to watch movies-the more stimulating the better. Swap out mainstream slop with something that plants ideas & voila: the sick scenes, their friends *have* to check out, also radicalize them
Kristen Stewart on how the Hollywood studio system is not set up for artists:
"Are we going to like, wait to be chosen like a f---ing golden ticket? Like, 'I got the golden ticket! I can make one f---ing movie!' We need to make more work. There needs to be more work, more output, more connection and less fear and less f---ing bureaucracy and also less making billionaires more f---ing billionaires. It’s driving me insane. We spend so much money, we just like hemorrhage money making stuff in a system that honestly is not designed for us." https://t.co/WHK5J1jGVF
Kristen Stewart wants to direct another movie by the end of the year "and put it on f---ing YouTube."
"Whatever money we make from that will be what I spend on my next one and there will be a trickle-down effect. I just don’t want to talk to these bros anymore ... I love Hollywood, I love big movies, [but] I don’t think I’d be very good at making them. I want to make weird s---. And I’m fully OK doing that in a kind of insulated, bizarre way. But I don’t want to do the thing where I wait five years for someone to give me $1 million to make something. I’m going to make it f---ing tomorrow." https://t.co/WHK5J1jGVF
Hannah Einbinder is not concerned about being blacklisted by Hollywood when it comes to supporting Palestine. She champions Melissa Barrera, Susan Sarandon and other actors speaking out:
"I think what they know is what I know, which is that the cost of not speaking is higher, you know? There is a greater toll in not speaking and you just gotta have your priorities straight. I am under no impression that my one small career could ever measure up in comparison to even one human life.
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#Cannes jury president Park Chan-wook says "I don’t think politics and art should be divided."
" I think it’s a strange concept to think that they’re in conflict with each other. Just because a work of art has a political statement, it should not be considered an enemy of art. At the same time, just because a film is not making a political statement, that film should not be ignored. Even if we are to make a brilliant political statement, if it’s not expressed artfully enough, it would just be propaganda. So what I want to say is that art and politics are not concepts that are in conflict with each other, as long as they are artistically expressed, they are valuable."