Gimme that “Opera” cut of Napoleon.

The Drama (Kristoffer Borgli, 2026) A rare trip to the movie theater warrants a rare review of a contemporary film.

I think a lot of people are approaching The Drama incorrectly (both the ones who like it and the ones who don't) so I tried to straighten things out a bit. fcardamenis.substack.com/p/the-drama-...

The Drama (Kristoffer Borgli, 2026) A rare trip to the movie theater warrants a rare review of a contemporary film.

I think a lot of people are approaching The Drama incorrectly (both the ones who like it and the ones who don't) so I tried to straighten things out a bit. fcardamenis.substack.com/p/the-drama-...

Features: The Beast, Chronovisor, Caught by the Tides, Familiar Touch, Memoria, Da 5 Bloods, Procession, El Año del Descubrimiento, A New Old Play, OBAA, The Killer, Maggie’s Farm, Cronenberg x2, Sertânia, Red Rooms.

Ah my bad.

That’s a free $1000!

If you read Alana Haim as vigorously rejecting the (Black) Other within American society I think the movie makes a bit more sense, but the RPatz stance is still unconvincing in relation and Athie’s being undeveloped doesn’t really let this read breathe much imo.

Also found this premise to be entirely uninspiring lol. So she had a bad idea as a kid but she doesn’t anymore. Who cares! People get out of prison everyday for stuff they actually do, and they deserve love and friendship as much as anyone.

Why does RPatz need to take a pic of the book Zendaya is reading? Surely he could just read the title and author and then look it up?

The direction of archery is terrible. I watched some events and you never even get a shot of the arrow flying to the target. It’s all close-ups. No sense of distance at all. My dad saw it at the ‘84 Olympics and said the target is so far there’s hardly anything to “watch.”

Looked into Olympic tickets and there are zero medal sessions available for less than $300 in any sport except archery and judo right now.

Think about how great it would be to radio in “moon’s haunted” immediately after regaining communication after that 40 minute blackout.

What’s also pretty interesting is that he’s pretty far from Bazin in his reverence for the edit and his want to use the camera to transform and interpret reality, but then on sound and polyvision he basically is just doing Myth of Total Cinema discourse.

Shorter Abel Gance: I discovered the essential problem of cinema and then I solved it. It uncovered another problem, but I solved that too. My comrades have not figured it out yet.

The Big Parade, once more For those of you who couldn't get enough.

I wrote a bit more about The Big Parade, because it’s really good and I had more to say. Thoughts on the midpoint departure scene and the ending: fcardamenis.substack.com/p/the-big-pa...

Watched A Cottage on Dartmoor last night. You guys hip to this one? Seems like nobody had heard of it until around 10 years ago. Major banger.

I don't wish death on anyone except for...uhh, Bibi, plus some people I should be careful about naming, and it is extremely upsetting that I often find myself thinking that Israel suffering more might be one of the only off-ramps we have. But I still hope your family is safe!

I'm sorry about your family, and I hope they remain safe. I also hope Iran will kill Bibi, so all solidarity with you guys.

Yeah, I mean...things are very bad and scary for everyone rn. I'm as privileged as can be in many ways but that's pretty cold comfort as I watch all of my worst fears of my political maturity come to fruition.

Okay I'm coming around to your perspective here. I still don't think we should *ignore* that Tucker is making a coherent and even appealing argument (in this clip) but I'm willing to concede recklessness and lying by omission on this.

I wouldn't accuse the left of that, but I would accuse basically everyone in Congress of it, including all of Dem leadership and its institutions! I'm willing to give a bit of ground and say Hasan was unclear on this point in a very unproductive way, and perhaps that tips over into irresponsible.

I think we need to say Tucker is right about X, but wrong about Y, that this isn't a Western vs. Eastern culture thing but a question of power, of ethnonationalism, etc., and that terms like Western vs. Eastern culture actually play into what defines the conflict rather than cut against it.

Respectfully, I don't think this is correct. If there were a bill to end funding and transfer of arms to Israel, and you were a Democrat in Congress, would you refuse to vote against it if some Republicans were voting for it for reasons that you suspect are bad?

I also don't think journalists need to treat the audience like babies; we don't need to preface every clip of a bad person with a big disclaimer that he's bad, in the same way we don't need to say, whenever a politician we dislike takes the correct stance, that we think the politician sucks.

IDK, reasonable minds can differ here, but I think it's precisely because you're right about Carlson that it's important to acknowledge that he's correct in (most of) this clip, because the far-right being right about stuff that the mainstream treats as taboo is something we need to grapple with.

2/2 to paint Israel opposition as a very far right thing because they think it’ll scare people away from it, and letting left voices talk about it hurts that and makes the position more defensible. Hasan should be aware of TNC, for example, but I think he’s more right than wrong on this.

Yeah the TC “western vs. eastern” thing was bad but I think he did “undeniably” explain this in a way that is coherent and appealing to a lot of people, and he made her look dumb on “right to exist.” At the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, I’d say it is the goal of Israel supporters 1/2

The Economist EIC would never interview a camera-ready left-wing person and ask these questions, so the appearance to people who don’t pay close attention is that you have the MSM and the Democrats and Republicans who think our job is to support Israel, and then Tucker Carlson, who says we don’t.

This is exactly what’s he’s saying!Except it’s not that he’s the only one talking sense but that MSM refusal to platform leftwing voices on this issue leaves that lane open to the far-right. TNC articulated the Israel problem better than Tucker but was raked over the coals for it.

That makes sense. Not a lot of time for us out-of-towners to try to make arrangements, though!