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The Mission was shown in 35mm in Taiwan, so did they find the negative?
"Very grateful to Mr Chiu Fu-sheng for taking the trouble to send The Mission to Tokyo Laboratory after filming where the 35mm film has been preserved in a temperature and humidity regulated environment."

Weirding the Periphery: How Imperialism Infiltrated Our Imagination Through Fantasy - Typebar Magazine So much of foundational fantasy is about the (often imperial) core versus outside territories.

The narrative structures of traditional western fantasy have primed our imaginations for imperialist apologia, writes Eden Kupermintz

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Because while I was addicted to these movies, I had to admit that each one was a train wreck. But stranger still, each picture seemed to be the same train wreck. They all had posters painted by the artist, Boris Vallejo. They all cast actress María Socas in supporting roles. They were all shot in Argentina with Argentine extras and buff American leading men. As it turned out, they were all produced by the same guy, Roger Corman, who produced 10 extremely low budget movies in Argentina throughout the ‘80s. Almost all of them were Sword and Sorcery-style fantasy. But why? If it was a cost saving measure, then surely there were cheaper locations than Argentina. And why fantasy? The costumes and magic presumably drove up production costs. No matter what angle I sliced the question, my journey kept bringing me back to Pretoria, South Africa on November 8th, 1975 for that year’s Mr Olympia bodybuilding competition.

.@jeezluisjorge.bsky.social writes on the relationship between bodybuilding and pulp fantasy

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This does, in fact, explain a lot

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Crossed 1500 albums on my Bandcamp collection. Follow along here as I continue to experience the golden age of metal (I am 1000% serious when I say that this is the greatest era to listen to metal)

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the shrouds is some of cronenberg's funniest work. loved it. unnerving confluence of grief, paranoia, and equally invasive/pervasive tech. felt somewhere between a DeLillo and later period Gibson novel, and crucially with no resolution.

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Goodbye to a true visionary, I'm sorry I hated your film as a kid, I love it as an adult

I'll try and not to suffer, Mr. Lynch

Thanks to all for your kind remembrances on this awful day. Words will come later. Only feelings at the moment. Mourn and remember him but don’t forget to celebrate too. We won’t see his like again. The man from another place has gone home. #DavidLynch #TwinPeaks

I think TP:TR being 18 hours has made people overlook this, but: Lynch spent most of the 21st c. unable to get funding. At a certain point he seemed to give up entirely on getting a feature funded. Lynch! The best US filmmaker of the last 50 years! What is the industry good for?

Electric Trio Vol. 7 'The Wedding March' (1928), 'The Possessed' (1965), and 'Motorway' (2012)

didn’t quite manage to get this out before the new year but here’s a new Electric Trio for you all! featuring a silent romantic drama, a surreal noir mystery, and a no-frills car chase actioner

I enjoyed the movie! It went by quickly, and I was never bored. But there are parts of it that I feel are indefensible. And I dunno, I was expecting it be a bit more meticulously involved in the architectural process? Great score and photography though.

A cop-out even not taking into account the ongoing genocide, and contextualizing it only within the the film itself, which is loud about all its other ideas but, conveniently, not this one. Strong epilogue is an indictment of how Toth's struggle and story was co-opted, but it's too little too late

Great piece that I think correctly identifies the film's engagement with the colonialism of Israel/Zionism, which is: not really taking a stance at all, besides paralleling the project's allure with the American Dream (however critically).
Whole thing cloaks itself in a scrim of cheap ambiguity.

Don't You Want Some Good F***ing Food?: On The Brutalist nothing, of its own explanation

I went long on THE BRUTALIST, a catastrophically amateurish feat of cinephilic pretension. I have not loathed a movie this much in quite some time

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idk, but great hat

welcome, all. i have definitely been extremely active on here this whole time

Open Season on the Human Race Horror and the American Landscape in The Mothman Prophecies (2002) and Dark Waters (2019)

Hey friends, thought I would drop my latest Substack post: on horror, American spaces, and the post-industrial landscape. I was pretty proud of this one and I hope you enjoy
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