Aster

Blocking anyone concern trolling the death of an insurance CEO, even mildly. I’m glad you wouldn’t wish death on him. Good for you. I think you’re a coward with no morals, but I’m glad you’re the nice guy in your own head.

you ever see a movie so bad it make you question what you ever saw in the filmmaker to begin with?

watched Rebel Moon part 1 directors cut and it is absolutely atrocious.

feels like a spell has been broken. Am I finally free?

favorite local bookshop is closing next month. real sad but picked these up in their going out of business sale

Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema - Paperback Book LIMIT 1 PER CUSTOMER By Willow Maclay & Caden Gardner In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order — relegated to a lo

buy our book on the Vinegar Syndrome site. 20 copies there ahead of the black friday sale.
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I feel like it’s always been celebrated among the Shawshank canon types

dear reader friends: I've been using Italic Type to track my reading BUT I just got an email that they might be shutting down.

I might switch to Story Graph but wanted to ask for recommendations for book tracking sites that you recommend that are not Good Reads.

Thanks!

AMC River East 21 Showtimes for Juror No. 2

Heads up for Chicago followers that AMC River East 21 (and a few other AMC Suburb theaters) have four daily showings listed for Juror No. 2 until Monday.

yeah hearing more explicit details about the unrealized projects definitely made my heart hurt!

just finished Kubrick: An Odyssey and didn’t realize his wife was Harlan’s niece and Kubrick considered making a film about the film’s production

Hey Chicago mutuals. Scarecrow in a Garden of Cucumbers will be at Music Box on December 3rd and I will be there (@willowcatelyn.bsky.social will be teleporting). Come watch a Holly Woodlawn star vehicle/fantasia/cuckoo bananas film!
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Chronicle of Anna Magdalena Bach
Crank
Deutschlandbilder
The Inextinguishable Fire
Introduction to the End of an Argument
Le Gai Savoir
Loft
Machorka-Muff
Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion
Nightshift Nurses
Toujours moins
The Trial
The Valiant Ones

I haven’t been watching many movies this year but in August I watched 3 great ones:

Chime
Loft
Trap

one-word monosyllabic supremacy

hello

thank you!

not too bad. you?

yo

now that's the life

forgot about this place for a minute hey how’s it going what’s happening

seated for the new Costa and Hong

thank you! Drugstore is the one I hear about the most

that's what I keep hearing! any titles you recommend starting with or would I be fine just diving in?

thinking I might start checking out Paul Vecchiali films. haven’t seen any

barely watched any horror movies this month, having a hard time getting into the mood.

Starbucks by my work has a white board with a prompt to write your favorite Halloween movie and amid all the Hocus Pocuses and Tim Burtons some little freak wrote The Addiction and Hubie Halloween

can't wait to see this at Chicago International Film Fest this month

Sep firsts:

Afire (Christian Petzold, 2023)
Extended Presences (Margaux Dauby, 2023)
I Thought the World of You (Kurt Walker, 2022)
M*U*S*H* (Jodie Mack, 2022)
Shibuya - Tokyo (Tomonari Nishikawa, 2010)
Vampyros Lesbos (Jesús Franco, 1971)

a lot of babies that cannot handle people not liking their children’s cartoons as high art and they’ll never forgive him for it

the Scorsese GQ piece really is so moving . his thoughts on aging, pairing down, and accepting not fitting in are very inspiring to me.

also the extrapolations that he said Nolan will save cinema or that it's dead are so off the mark. there's so much hope here esp for grass roots filmmakers

finally have a moment to sit down and read the Scorsese GQ piece