Kyle Stevens

Poster of an ai generated Hegseth posing as Uncle Sam with the words I WANT YOU TO USE AI

Me: trying to educate, agitate, encourage to organize

Every gd university:

Whatever ideas you might have about Sophie Kinsella's books, I found them charming and witty, and found an often-needed perspective. Rest in peace.

Every time I think about Richter just hitting play on “On the Nature of Daylight” I have to stop and rub the bridge of my nose. At LEAST do a new arrangement a la Michael Nyman!

A tad, yes!

Historical accuracy be dammed, obviously. I can get that. But making Hamlet a prop for grief porn is too far.

Hamnet sure had a lot of acting! Jessie Buckley is really great: the physicality, the dynamics she found in simply written scenes, etc. But the overall film can’t help but undermine any faith in fiction, in metaphor. It makes everything literal, and so, feel empty.

We do, and we're grateful!

I love this idea!

Young Burt Lancaster serving as the blueprint for Jacob Elordi.

Rewatching The Killers and, um, let this be your reminder to, too.

Ryan Murphy is a pox on culture.

Waded into All’s Fair out of anthropological interest. Ryan Murphy remains the ultimate Karen. What’s surprising(ish) is that Glenn Close is worse than Kim Kardashian.

Criterion Channel!

Watched the first episode of Wong Kar-wai’s Shanghai Blossoms. Incredible. All his sumptuous style and historicizing + flashes of pulpy mystery fun. Already crave more.

The Thanksgiving parade is the highest form of American art. Driven by capitalism but entirely earnest, bizarre in ways you can never expect, absolutely packed with Broadway stars freezing their asses off. There is really nothing we do better than

Finally taking my turn with After the Hunt. Horrible, obviously, in its contempt for academia and weird assumptions about intellectual rewards. But honestly the score is the most offensive part. Just absolutely awful.

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Mamdani visiting Trump like a cat visits someone in a nursing home

My undergrad library!

Please live

Cloudflare sounds like the name of a hippie in a 70s ABC Movie of the Week (sponsored by Texaco).

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938

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Yay for her and the system!

Sorry, Baby was so highly recommended. But, oy. I haven’t been so incensed by a movie since The Whale. She’s who Lena Dunham mocks. (Also, zero research into how academia works. Just zero.)

In the wake of "chastened" debates on film theory, what would a reinvigorated theory of film look like? Marc Furstenau reviews the Oxford Handbook of Film Theory, edited by Kyle Stevens @cinementalist.bsky.social. Link in bio!

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Oscar Isaac says he is open to returning to STAR WARS but is doubtful about Disney after they suspended Jimmy Kimmel.

“I’d be open to it, although right now I’m not so open to working with Disney. But if they can kinda figure it out and, you know, not succumb to fascism, that would be great”

now trump gets to be like “we don’t know what the shutdown was about, democrats just held the country hostage for 2 months for no reason” and he would be sort of correct

Separate Tables (1959), for moral maturity.

Traitors UK talking about Alan (a gay who, like me, came up during predominant AIDS era) as “having gone undetected” is so tone deaf.

lol