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You know, I’d love to read this, but like EVERY SINGLE WEBSITE now, you can’t read it unless you pay this or take out that membership.

Bugger off. Find other ways to supplement yourself that doesn’t charge your readers every time we click on your stuff.

To be clear, there are three color modes in Nosferatu: Night, Day, and Interior.

I do love how the night shoots look almost black and white, the interior shots look sepia toned like old film and the day shots look like a color muted 1970's horror film.

Some outlets are reporting that DOGE "doesn't exist" anymore. But the fine print on that overturns the whole story: DOGE is just dropping its tarnished brand, not the chainsaw. 🧵

It was 😂

The articles asks "where did all the colour from movies go?" then favorably compares Nosferatu, a beautiful but largely color muted movie to Frankenstein, an equally beautiful movie vibrant with color.

Picture: Mia Goth and Oscar Isaac in Frankenstein looking at a corpse dissected along it's spine. Text: "It’s not just Wicked experiencing visual criticism, Frankenstein’s lighting seemed inconsistent with the intended gothic tones, with many believing it felt like a video game, unlike Nosferatu, another gothic creature horror that enthralled with its masterful use of lighting and darker tones. Decider’s review of Frankenstein recognised “that signature Netflix flatness in its lighting and focus, a lack of contrast that makes the surfaces stick together across each focal length. Few elements on-screen feel real and tangible, and for a film about blood and sinew, that’s a problem.”"

I stopped reading that Guardian article at this point. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills when people talk about Frankenstein's cinematography like this.

I'm just going to have to accept I live in a different reality than everyone else, I guess.

More proof they're trying to turn Venezuela into Iraq 3.0

That close up of the two of them on the stairs is one of my favorites tbh

Two priest sit on different sections of a stairwell, facing opposite each each other

Two priest sit on different sections of a stairwell, facing opposite each each other. One is in closeup

As I get older I realize this is one of my favorite scenes in THE EXORCIST, and its power is in its austerity. It’s pared down to its essence, and it carries the weight of the entire movie.

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That Doctor Sleep reference in this week's Welcome to Derry though.

It was early 2000s Hawk Tuah if Hawk Tuah was already a rich nepobaby when Hawk Tuah happened.

She's the rich daughter of the lawyer who defended OJ Simpson in court, then befriended Paris Hilton and both had a sex tapes leak in the early 2000s which they propelled into reality show careers.

That's the long and short of it.

What’s the *lore* behind my header?

It's Kim Kardashian. Everything she does is inexplicably popular despite being the absolute worst unwatchable garbage imaginable.

If there ever was a symbol for collective societal brain rot, it's the Kardashian family's popularity as a whole.

My ⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2 review of THE PASSENGER boxd.it/bPvWhj

Unexpectedly thoughtful psychological thriller bolstered by two incredibly fine performances from Berchtold & Gallner.

Is living life with regret & reticence really living at all? Great premise, sometimes uneven execution. Loved it.

#filmsky 📽

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I dig both Rogue One and Solo. Sue me.

I still don't get what the point of Letterboxd is, I have an account on there and the only thing I use it for is making lists sometimes tbh.

I frequently get on a soapbox about writing "rules". There's only one rule: You have to write.

Everything else is advice and your mileage may vary.

The "peace president."

We have gotten so used to Great Replacement becoming normalized that most people hardly noticed that a racist, antisemitic, xenophobic conspiracy theory popularized by mass shooters and 4chan trolls is now government policy.

Maybe focus on making sure planes dont fall out of the sky. Its our goddamn right as Americans to dress however the fuck we want.

YouTube video by Vanity Fair ILM Visual Effects Artist Breaks Down Hidden VFX | Vanity Fair

"ILM Visual Effects Artist Breaks Down Hidden VFX | Vanity Fair"

Udo Kier in SUSPIRIA.

Udo Kier in BLADE.

Udo Kier in BLOOD FOR DRACULA.

Udo Kier in MY OWN PRIVATE IDAHO.

Seriously, just one of the best onscreen presences to ever grace the silver screen. The definition of raw magnetism. RIP, Udo.

Udo Kier was one of the great character actors while also being a hell of a character offscreen, too. Truly one of God’s own prototypes. Rest in peace, you magnificent bastard.

Talk about a wild ride! 😂 RIP Julian McMahon.

Beautiful score. Cage doesn’t surf once but drinks his own piss, bites into a dead rat, learns something about masculinity, and maybe, just maybe, learns a little about himself too. Carries some of that Wake in Fright spirit, and more obviously John Cheever’s The Swimmer. A vibe.

My take on the Optic/Haptic vid is: It tries to develop a unifying theory on a broad thesis with a shaky premise (“Why don’t movies look realistic anymore?”) and inevitably winds up with a mess of cherry-picking, self-contradictions, specious reasoning, along with a lot of individually good points.

Naked is a classic imo! My favorite David Thewlis performance, which is saying a lot because he's always great.

ILM Visual Effects Artist Breaks Down Hidden VFX If you were one of those people who loved watching DVD extras, you’ll enjoy the hell out of ILM visual effects artist Todd Vaziri breaking down some of the special effects that he and his team have worked on, including

This is great: ILM visual effects artist Todd Vaziri breaks down some of the “hidden” special effects that he and his team have worked on, incl. for Rogue One, The Force Awakens, and Transformers. “I make the stars in Star Wars.” [kottke.org]

Fantastic and very informative. @tvaziri.com is a great teacher.