Gus Lanzetta

Who Will Remember You?: “The Secret Agent” and the Humanities as Resistance How Kleber Mendonça Filho's film positions archival, art, and preservation as tools of resistance.

Excellent essay on The Secret Agent

www.rogerebert.com/women-writer...

It was going on one, two in the morning, and we were shooting what I felt was an important scene for me, when he makes an attempt to be quote-unquote straight, in a suit, and at the end of it he gets emotional and locks himself in the other room. And I felt like, I’m not getting what I want—I’m not happy with it. Mike was happy with it. He called me the next day and said, “I know you weren’t happy with the scene last night. Believe me, we wouldn’t have gone home if I had felt we weren’t getting it.” And then he sort of became my psychiatrist and said, “You find it difficult to be happy, don’t you? You find it difficult to enjoy things.” And I said, “Well, sometimes. Last night was about feeling too tired and not feeling I was reaching what I needed to reach for the scene.” He talked to me then about when he was making, I don’t know whether it was Virginia Woolf or The Graduate. He said, “I didn’t enjoy it for a second. I was worried about so many things.” And then he said, “You know, this is never going to happen again quite this way. You should try to allow yourself to enjoy this more. Take a minute a day, and then add a minute the next day, and another minute. Pretty soon, you’ll have hours of happiness.”

The Birdcage opened thirty years ago today, so in its honor, I want to share one of my favorite stories about Mike Nichols that didn't make it into my biography. This is from an interview I did with Nathan Lane.

é só juntar isso aqui com a viagem de tarcísio aos EUA e a notícia de que trump vai classificar PCC e CV como grupos terroristas essa semana pra sacar que é tudo jogada ensaiada

“Piracy is the most effective form of artistic distribution these days. So be it.”

-Werner Herzog on NPR just now 🔥

Just figured out the FLAC version of Riders on the Storm with Snoop Dogg has the entire remix element, including vocals, shifted off beat by .050 ms.

Need for Speed Undercover 2's version is the only synced one.

You got to stop saying you’re the richest country in the world…
You’re a country with a powerful minority of very, very wealthy people who have no intention of letting you tax them.

man, i click on lots of stuff, new and old, cool and cringe and everything in between. lots of those clicks are inessential and some are good but boy howdy i was not prepared for this performance of 'these days' to hit me between the eyes like a brick

"Pílulas de energia"
Ahã.
É metanfetamina. Os pilotos, bem como grande parte dos militares em geral dos EUA e Isr43l tomam cristal dado a eles por seus superiores.

... normal né?

spent the night playing CS 1.6 at a LAN party for a friend's birthday and its crazy we solved the multiplayer FPS in 2000, and then decided to spend the next 26 years making them worse in every way imaginable

Wagner Moura in The Secret Agent

Matt Johnson in Nirvanna: The Band - the Show - the Movie

My god, at the end of the upcoming episode of @junkfilterpod.bsky.social my guest and I drew a parallel between Kleber Mendonça Filho’s The Secret Agent and Matt Johnson’s Nirvanna: The Band - the Show - the Movie (complimentary!).

All will be explained in the show, dropping in a few days

rare to hear someone admit their cowardice so openly like that.

Now more than ever I’m convinced losing Anthony Bourdain meant we lost probably the biggest person on tv who advocated for the wonders of meeting new people and calling anyone online who hated learning new cultures the children they were, ruthlessly to the camera.

YouTube video by Grasshopper Film Pictures of Ghosts | Official Trailer

Recording a pod tomorrow about Kleber Mendonça Filho’s instant masterpiece THE SECRET AGENT and his recent documentary that will only deepen your appreciation of it, PICTURES OF GHOSTS, now streaming on Criterion Channel.

Next week on @junkfilterpod.bsky.social!

youtu.be/6xjZsMj21Fk

super mario all-stars para wii

lembram qdo os caras resolveram lançar pra wii uma única rom de super nintendo pesando menos de 1mb dentro de um dvd-r com armazenamento de 4.7 gigabytes em "comemoração" aos tantos anos de mario e não era nem a versão que vinha super mario world junto?

This sucks. One of the best critics working, and a major reason I kept a subscription over there. Normally I’d warn people who dangerous this bookstore is to your wallet but now your impulsive decisions instantly become cool film and TV supplemental material and they help great people.

this is, all else being equal, easily the funniest thing the director of inside out could have said

YouTube video by Alton Brown Alton Brown Cooks Food | Episode 16: Guga!

PQP o Alton Brown nessa semana fez um vídeo com o GUGA

Rod Serling is probably the coolest guy of the 20th century. Looked cool, sounded cool, fought Nazis, hated John Wayne, wrote the screenplay for Planet of the Apes. Honestly dunks all the hell over any male influencer guy.

I remember learning about the Hays Code in film school and how it made it so that any amoral protagonist had to meet karmic justice by the end of the film and going “wow, that’s really silly” and then once a week I log online and see people argue that we need stuff like that now or it’s problematic

Split diopter shot in The Secret Agent - Wagner Moura’s character sneaking up on his kid

Can I talk about THE SECRET AGENT without crying? This is the challenge for my next episode of @junkfilterpod.bsky.social, a movie that had me on the verge while watching the first time and then slammed me to the canvas for the second round. Recording tomorrow, out next week

sometimes it makes me feel bad for having project ideas crash and burn soon after i decide to tell everyone about them but apparently that is now the corporate standard so actually this is me being professional so it's okay

1) Há dois (ou três? Num lembro) anos, o jornalista Jack Nickas, do New York Times, recebeu de uma fonte anônima IMAGENS DE CIRCUITO DE TV DA EMBAIXADA DA HUNGRIA.
Essas imagens mostravam jair buscando refúgio ali, pra não ser preso pelo Xandão (e deu errado).

TIL that Seth MacFarlane wrote Halston Sage out of his show The Orville when they stopped dating. And then he replaced her with an identical character. lmao.

It seems the thieving grifter pieces of human filth at "superhuman" are using my work without my consent to create AI editors based on me. The world isn't terrible enough, we also have to deal with people just stealing our work to burn resources and enrich themselves in a brand new way? Fuck off

Grammarly is using our identities without permission Grammarly’s AI stole my boss’s identity.

I happened to be in downtown SF today, so I tried stopping by the Superhuman AI office to ask about the AI “editor” based on me. Unfortunately just got a very nice office manager who said no one was in.

Lots of games people in Grammarly’s pool too besides me…

foda que torcer pra Globo é coisa de vagabundo e torcer pro STF é coisa de pela saco a única opção razoável é o arranjo complexo de querer mais é que o careca se foda e que ao mesmo tempo a jornalista seja pega na mentira

Alpha Bravo Charlie Delta Emo!

I've been running gdcparties.com for a few years now. Some shitty company BlueberryAI decided they'd just take all the source code for the work I've done and reskin it, advertising it as their own. Jokes on them...it was still linked to my events spreadsheet, and now their website looks like this 😉

Uma das melhores livrarias se foi. Obrigado (ironia) Amazon por fechar mais uma loja querida. Ela vende tanta coisa hoje em dia, não precisa mais vender livros.

“Everything else just looked terrifying” he explains about a comedy bit in a comedy show that would only benefit from from terrifying prosthetics