#Sinners DP Autumn Durald Arkapaw just made #Oscars history.
She is the first woman to ever win the Academy Award for best cinematography.
https://t.co/YCGMHcYLXu
Olivia Colman, Ayo Edebiri, Josh O’Connor, Yorgos Lanthimos, Mark Ruffalo, Hannah Einbinder, Aimee Lou Wood and Melissa Barrera are among 1,200 industry names vowing not to work with Israeli film companies that are implicated in genocide and apartheid against the Palestinian people.
“Despite operating in Israel’s system of apartheid, and therefore benefiting from it, the vast majority of Israeli film production and distribution companies, sales agents, cinemas and other film institutions have never endorsed the full, internationally-recognized rights of the Palestinian people. In this urgent moment of crisis, where many of our governments are enabling the carnage in Gaza, we must do everything we can to address complicity in that unrelenting horror.”
(https://t.co/AxnwgvXhFf)
i know we’ve moved on but can’t stop thinking about this shot. The drop-in. The slow pullback revealing the Sistine Chapel and the Swiss Guard. The door closing right on cue??? Did the Holy See hire a union DP???
ngl it brings me to tears seeing this kind of laborious commitment to craft in an industry that increasingly avoids effort and bends over backwards to reduce time & expense. everything about this episode’s visual/filmic thoughtfulness really really moved me.
tbh if the New York Times decided they couldn’t print pictures of me because I was so hot that it would drive people to communism then I would consider that the highest possible compliment
the right wing radicalization of high school and college aged men is truly one of the biggest crises in the us and it goes nearly completely unaddressed
If they had a lick of sense and an ounce of bravery they would go scorched earth in these final months. Lost the presidency and the senate? Just do it. But I don’t think they have it in them.
trump almost getting assassinated & biden getting covid in the same week is the most american thing imaginable. almost getting killed by something they both pretended to not be a problem is poetic — no one doin it like us fr