@briebriejoy PTAs fetish with black women esp light-skin black women stems from Paulette Marron’s faux commercial from his beloved Putney Swope film dir by his hero Robert Downey Sr
@Variety Everyone in Hollywood treats films like a sport - it’s where the asinine “why should I root for this character” mindset comes from from creative execs
@davidehrlich Future of movies? Panahi PT Chan-wook Coogler were all established directors 10 years ago - Safdie and Zhao were just starting out - future of movies is bleak becuz we are not seeing enough new emerging voices in the industry
@MatthewACherry You missed a name Sam Cooke he was Elvis’s favorite gospel singer in fact all pop & soul comes from gospel music but its importance in shaping American popular music has been sadly diminished
@EHuanglu If you understood the first thing about real cinema image you’d now every frame of this commercial is hot garbage - the only thing AI does is make production/post cheaper that’s it nothing else - it’s absolutely garbage as far as creating pure cinema images
@teamansion Start with Fruitvale - still his most emotionally resonant film - you don’t need to watch all the Rocky movies just the first one-it’s a homage to the first Rocky but this time with Apollo’s son Adonis (playing Rocky’s role as the heavy under-dog going the distance vs the champ
@MrGlinis Making sense of our current times is a description of television - Aster and esp Garland aren’t even in the top 5 of best contemporary directors