The Film Industry’s Cowardice on Palestine Threatens to Diminish the Value of Cinema Itself — Opinion Movies have no relevance if they turn away from reality, which is what the distribution struggles of "No Other Land" and Nadav Lapid's "Yes" suggest.

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“Tenderness is the new punk” says Joachim Trier in Cannes "Polarisation, anger and machismo aren't the way forward."

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‘Sentimental Value’ Review: Joachim Trier’s Wise and Ecstatically Moving Family Portrait Searches for Intimacy Through Filmmaking Stellan Skarsgård and Renate Reinsve soar in 'Sentimental Value,' about a director who casts his estranged daughter in a movie based on his own life.

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Høyrebyråden i Oslo klarer ikke finne midler til fritidsklubber for ungdom på Søndre Nordstrand, så Karpe gjør det 👇

Check out how the anchors of CBS Evening News ended their broadcast tonight:

A tale of two movies:

Similar deal structures. Similar budgets.

One made $45M from 3300 screens, post pandemic, and won the weekend.

The other made $41M from 3600 screens pre-pandemic, and placed second.

And yet this is the coverage.

A drawing of a perfect phone that only has three buttons on it, one of them says IS HE DEAD one of them says AM I BROKE and the other one says RELAXING PUZZLE GAME

I invented a new phone to help save time in the morning

There is an impulse in moments like this to appeal to self-interest. To say: These horrors you are allowing to happen, they will come to your doorstep one day; to repeat the famous phrase about who they came for first and who they'll come for next. But this appeal cannot, in matter of fact, work. If the people well served by a system that condones such butchery ever truly believed the same butchery could one day be inflicted on them, they'd tear the system down tomorrow. And anyway, by the time such a thing happens, the rest of us will already be dead. No, there is no terrible thing coming for you in some distant future, but know that a terrible thing is happening to you now. You are being asked to kill off a part of you that would otherwise scream in opposition to injustice. You are being asked to dismantle the machinery of a functioning conscience. Who cares if diplomatic expediency prefers you shrug away the sight of dismembered children? Who cares if great distance from the bloodstained middle allows obliviousness. Forget pity, forget even the dead if you must, but at least fight against the theft of your soul.

One of many moments in Omar El Akkad’s new book, “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This,” that will stop you in your tracks.

Excellent work by new NYT headline writer Werner Herzog

Academy ‘Condemns Harming or Suppressing Artists’ in Statement to Members Without Mentioning ‘No Other Land’ Co-Director The Academy issues a statement in the wake of 'No Other Land' co-director Hamdan Ballal being attacked in the West Bank and Yuval Abraham critique.

His name is Hamdan Ballal. HIS NAME IS HAMDAN BALLAL. www.indiewire.com/news/breakin...

“Chicago had a kind of democratic corruption when I was growing up in the 1950s. Everybody had the inalienable right to have a $20 bill parked behind their driver’s license when they got stopped running a red light.” — great interview by Bilge that really captures Michael Mann’s voice

Oscar-winning Palestinian director attacked by Israeli settlers and arrested No Other Land’s Hamdan Ballal attacked by armed settlers in West Bank and handed to Israeli military, witnesses say

So the Oscar-winning Palestinian director Hamdan Ballal was attacked by masked Israeli settlers while at home on the West Bank and then arrested by the IDF. The film community should condemn this with one voice
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How Gunnar Hall Jensen Had the Guts to Complete His Documentary About His Son After the Young Man’s Death (EXCLUSIVE) "Portrait of a Confused Father” set out to explore the director's relationship with his son. Weeks before wrapping, he heard his son had been killed.

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Roses are red
Violets are blue