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In next month's Criterion lineup is a movie that I saw in my teens, on some channel late at night. For years I couldn't find anyone who knew of this movie nor could I find a copy to buy or rent. I started to think I had hallucinated it.

Ok, also from 2024 Conclave, The Substance, No Other Land, Thelma; 2023 Wicked Little Letters, American Fiction, Tatami, Holdovers, The Boy and His Heron, Fallen Leaves, Bottoms, The Teachers Lounge; 2022 Pinnochio, Hundreds of Beavers, White Noise...

Hmm...
2020: Nomadland/Soul/His House
2021: Mad God/Official Competition/The Sales Girl
2022: Banshees of Inisherin/Close/Nope/ EEAAO
2023: Rye Lane/Asteroid City/Perfect Days/Poor Things/ Evil Does Not Exist
2024: Flow/Anora/Love Lies Bleeding/A Real Pain
2025: One Battle/Weapons/Sinners/Bugonia.

I think I was unaware of some of the cultural context with Cloud, because I'm aware of a slight distaste for resellers here in the States, but the movie portrays the resellers having a reputation on par with the lowest of unsavory criminals.

We watched the last Kiyoshi Kurosawa film "Cloud," I looked up the lead actor's filmography and his first 6-7 credits were all Kamen Rider as Kamen Rider W.

We've been watching / rewatching all of Peter Weir's films (highly recommended) and with a couple exceptions they are full of sweaty people in real locations.

So they're only going to publish genre fiction in trade paperback or hardcover? Bleah.

The cat almost looks like a Woodwick.

Jen Sorensen nails the hypocrisy and racism of the "European culture" argument.

RFK has dropped the meningitis vaccine from the CDC's vaccine schedule.
Holy f**king hell.
Meningitis can kill a child in HOURS. Survivors sometimes suffer brain damage, amputation.
Every politician in DC who is not taking action to remove him is threatening lives.
HOLY. HELL.

The full spiked 60 Minutes CECOT package, clean & subtitled. 1/5

The person who made the decision to hold this story has never been a news reporter or a news editor. Really sickening.

As Ta-Nehisi Coates said, "Either you're cowards or you're with him, and if you're with him, you never believed in the things you were talking about to begin with."

Even that no holds barred match between Maria Abramovic & Francis Alys at the Whitney Museum?

Rick Steves. Good guy.

100% they're just going to show PragerU horseshit on the station now.

If I’m understanding this correctly, X is owned by a white nationalist who pays poor people of color in developing countries to pretend to be working class white Americans to scare other white Americans into being afraid poor people of color from developing countries are going to ruin America?

We really are the dumbest country run by the dumbest people.

The 🇺🇸 American pre-Code 
musical black comedy film "DUCK SOUP" directed by Leo McCarey and starring the Marx Brothers (Groucho, Harpo, Chico and Zeppo in his final film appearance) was released in the U.S. #OnThisDay in 1933

🎬 Paramount Pictures

Motion Lines How do you show motion in a medium that doesn’t move?

The exhibit I co-curated at The Billy Ireland, Motion Lines: How Cartoonsts draw Movement, closed this past weekend... but if you missed it there's now this great online version--one of the very few they've done this for!

storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/7b5c...

What the hell are we doing?

Oh boy, I overheard another great set of takes from the art school students / recent grads here in town. I guess Ari Aster is the greatest filmmaker ever and Quentin Tarantino is like, so like, boring and like, terrible.

Hmm...Advance Publications owns Teen Vogue and 30% of reddit...and just before this election the journalists at Teen Vogue are axed and Reddit is shut down?

Somebody else gets it.

Ironic that the journalism at Teen Vogue would be gutted under the direction of Murphy Brown's daughter.

Slowly transforming into a Christian Dotremont-like logogram from the CoBrA art movement.

I'm glad these guys appreciated Black Devil Doll From Hell. It's like the film equivalent of a Henry Darger or Howard Finster. The PFS of SAV screened it at the Sentient Bean - imagine sitting next to a blackout curtain with your coffee and then hearing this movie playing on the other side.

Before last year’s election, my wife and I took our grandsons on a tour of the nation’s capital, realizing it might become quite different if Trump won. I kept thinking the symbols of democracy might turn into symbols of tyranny. We toured the White House’s East Wing. It’s being demolished now.

WWE using AI to write storylines? Why is anyone still watching it?

I really wish I could've understood more of the dialogue in THE LONG WALK. It was like listening to dialogue being read through a drive-thru speaker. I hope it was just a theater issue. Otherwise it was a pretty good movie!