Hundreds of Beavers

it is society that is the enemy! the man, etc

He is a great favorite. He says that he will never stop for gas.

the mortal terror humans (correctly) had of the darkness of night, pre- electric light bulb, I don't think that's depicted very often. the one example I thought of was Chabrol's LES FANTOMES DU CHAPELIER, where a slasher's victims would simply wander away from the gaslight and kkrrkkk that was that

What Did Ancient Humans Do at Night? YouTube video by Zenn

I dunno, normally I look askance at videos like this but it's pretty persuasive and, as near as I can figure, free of crankery

(also I'm appreciating hand-drawn stuff in vids more and more, for some reason lol)

youtu.be/st_Ah6Ykbh4?...

"We have no rodeo clowns in Yell County."

heh I like his look in TRUE GRIT, it's ideal for a lawman who's introduced as self-satisfied and presuming but ultimately proves himself a decent and fearless man. which, in keeping with the story's theme: those with True Grit don't always look or behave the way you'd expect.

the Spielberg caused BLACKKKLANSMAN to get bumped, and that says something because Lee's film is one of his best, and one of the very best of '18. Its runner-up status, for me, speaks well of the strength of films that year.

6 BETTER CALL SAUL: "WIEDERSEHEN" (Vince Gilligan)
7 READY PLAYER ONE (Steven Spielberg)
8 GRASS (Hong Sang-soo)
9 IN MY ROOM (Ulrich Köhler)
10 DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE (S. Craig Zahler)

updated top 10 favorite films of 2018

1 ISLE OF DOGS (Wes Anderson)
2 THE MULE (Clint Eastwood)
3 NOTES ON AN APPEARANCE (Ricky D’Ambrose)
4 THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS (Joel and Ethan Coen)
5 LE LIVRE D'IMAGE (Jean-Luc Godard)

- you know what they say, "money is the root of all evil"
- really? I thought that was just a tagline for my movie, DEATH BANK

A review of Alyonka (1962) Alyonka. It’s very pleasing visually: Barnet is of the wide-angle school, and likes the effect of space falling away in the distance. (Though the pictorialism doesn’t inhibit him from panning quickly,...

posted up notes from @sallitt.bsky.social on one of the most wonderful of all Soviet films, Boris Barnet's ALYONKA. If you ever have the opportunity to see this, take it.

letterboxd.com/sallitt/film...

it's not everybody who's both the Eggman and the Walrus at the same time

Criterion also released ANATOMY OF A MURDER, directed by .... Watto Preminger

I really like about 40-45% of this movie: basically anything where it feels like Ritchie had a say. Then there's the rest of it, very handsome and not badly made but the kind of pre-viz stuff that excludes a film director.

Something I didn't expect in a million years? His ALADDIN is quite enjoyable

the one hitman declaring "We're good" after they've finished with Arthur, the hardest those two words ever went in a movie.

but also I'm pretty sure she gets immediately 86'd on her attempt like all her other colleagues so whatever idea she had was a big BZZZZT

also there's a moment I like late in the film when Spielberg pushes in on a girl on Sorrento's brain trust and it looks like she's having "I might be onto something here" thoughts, I just like it. she's my friend. I'll assume her name is Stacey, or Nicole

you know initially I was going to pop in another movie besides READY PLAYER ONE, thinking, yeah, I still like it a lot but I'm not hurting anyone if I dip after the THE SHINING sequence and the very first thing is the reveal of the "Sixers" being absolutely horrified by the same game challenge lol

Yayy got the earliest available video consult appointment about my allergies! It’s in June

(They were crucial architects of the Third Reich)

Sullivan & Cromwell? My my, I did nAzI that coming!

Unwittingly, Stella Had Written a Whole Ass Lesbian Movie Treatment

just said "oh goody" on a phone call with another human adult, so, if you need me I'll be looking for other dimensions of spacetime to hide in forever

aw man, they probably became addicted to the water and resented its absence :(

saw Armond White intro that one, lo these many years ago. he was very normal! tho he did take a beat to remind us that the "Ord" in ORDET is pronounced Oooord (long o)

Hey they brought a sack lunch, smart

I don't know if it was the ratios or what but the rice I've made in the Instant Pot are better than any other rice I've ever made, ever. This thing, like dang.

🫂 Miga

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