"PARTIALLY DEVOURED: How Night of the Living Dead Saved My Life & Changed the World" is OUT NOW!
The wildest movie deep dive you've ever read
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a memoir of how the film changed my life (and how *any* art can change yours).
45 years in the making!
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www.danielkraus.com/books/partia...
Have a spring training game on in the background while doing other stuff and feel blessed to have been in the room to hear a woman yell, so loudly that it was perfectly legible on the broadcast, "#93 I LOVE YOUR BUTT!!!!!"
OH MY GOD
lol no fucking way
Mar 5th 1857 - Carlotta Valdes, the mistress of a wealthy man, took her own life after he cast her aside, keeping their child, once she'd given birth.
📽️📅 Vertigo (1958)
Patent Office https://npg.si.edu/object/npg_NPG.POB107
velvet underground researchers have apparently confirmed that this audio from a random youtube user is genuinely the long-lost july '67 performance from upbeat, a cleveland teen tv show, doing the unreleased "guess i'm falling in love" complete with screaming girls. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU2U...
Giacometti-ass basketball player
An ICE agent shot and killed Ruben Ray Martinez, a US citizen and San Antonio resident, in March 2025. Then ICE and the Texas Department of Public Safety covered it up. He was 23 years old. I am calling for a full investigation into this shooting, including why there was an 8-month cover up.
Steve Albini to Ratso: "I think we're a pretty normal band."
Going to singlehandedly revive middlebrow intellectual culture by starting a magazine called Popular Dumbass.
Which is to say, Wiseman conceived of documentary as a way of understanding and analyzing the world through careful visual study. And that's how he worked, even though it made no sense logistically or financially.
It was also extremely difficult to work this way! I've seen references to the seeming chaos of his editing suites in the early days, where the walls were covered with strips of film, hanging from hooks. There was no easy way to organize his footage except by collecting bits that seemed important.
That's why so many of the Direct Cinema/Cinéma Vérité landmarks are built around a concert or a tour or some other event that would give the filming a clear beginning and a likely ending. But Wiseman's method was so much more open-ended.
That's one of the reasons he mostly focused on institutions: it would give *some* structure to his cameras, all of which would be quietly observing, sometimes for weeks or months. That's not how documentaries were made! Film was expensive and you needed to justify burning through celluloid!
A big reason why his films are so compelling is that he approached his footage first as a viewer! Something would need to compel HIM in order to be included in the edit.
Wiseman filmed, mostly, without a clear shape or structure in mind. He and his camera operators would use the camera to observe normal, everyday life and work, and they'd typically amass a gigantic mass of footage. Then Wiseman would sift through it all and find what was most interesting.
Hard to overstate how much Fred Wiseman changed the cinema. He's often grouped with the Direct Cinema pioneers like the Maysles and Leacock, but he built on what they did with handheld cameras and sync sound to create a different kind of documentary, something that had really never existed before.
🔥 “To me, when we're talking about what justice looks like, it's ultimately getting to a place where every single fascist agent and the leaders that directed them to do what they did are held accountable to the highest degree of the law. And that means prosecution.”
Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground
1/ ProPublica collected handwritten letters in mid-January from children held at the Dilley Immigration Processing Center, the same facility where 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos was taken.
Hundreds of kids are still detained.
We’ll let the children’s words speak for themselves. 🧵
In Boston ICE randomly pulled over this huge white Irish guy with a Mass drivers license, 20 years in the states, legal status, pending green card and have held him for 5 months, his citizen wife paid a $4k bond that was ignored(!) ICE forged his signature on deportation agreement, no appeal
Concentration camps
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JUST IN: In a new court filing, attorneys for Marimar Martinez call Chicago's U.S. attorney's office "active enablers of an out-of-control client."
They cite reports from @chicago.suntimes.com and @npr.org in which DHS refuses to back down on claims that Martinez is a "domestic terrorist."
Self-portrait - Claude Cahun, 1921
The Blair Witch Project website in 1999
#WebDesignHistory
Here’s Lucy
"rich dipshit owner doesn't understand the industry he's bought into and clumsily destroys what made it good" feels less like a narrative unique to the washington post and more like the music that's been playing in the background of all our lives for at least 40 years
