Doubting any horror story from one of these places is like being a gravity truther

At Murnau's "The Last Laugh" and can't believe the smaller of Metrograph's two screening rooms is barely half full.

Even the art house crowd seems to have an aversion to the greatest silent films ever made.

s no "Excuse me, mamma - I wish you would not say, "the pick of them".' 'Why, what else are they?' 'I mean, mamma, it is rather a vulgar expression.' 'Very likely, my dear; I never was a good speaker. What should I say?" The best of them.' Why, that seems just as plain and common. If I had had time to think, I should have said, "the most superior young men". But with your education you must know.' 'What must Rosy know, mother?' said Mr Fred, who had slid in unobserved through the half-open door while the ladies were bending over their work, and now going up to the fire stood with his back towards it, warming the soles of his slippers. Whether it's right to say "superior young men",' said Mrs Vincy ringing the bell. 'Oh, there are so many superior teas and sugars now. Superior is getting to be shopkeepers' slang.' 'Are you beginning to dislike slang, then?' said Rosamond, with mild gravity. 'Only the wrong sort. All choice of words is slang. It marks a class.' There is correct English: that is not slang.' 5 'I beg your pardon: correct English is the slang of prigs who write history and essays. And the strongest slang of all is the slang of poets.' 'You will say anything, Fred, to gain your point.' 'Well, tell me whether it is slang or poetry to call an ox a leg- plaiter.' 'Of course you can call it poetry if you like.' 'Aha, Miss Rosy, you don't know Homer from slang. I shall invent a new game; I shall write bits of slang and poetry on slips, and give them to you to separate." alk I said

Some very fun banter in Middlemarch about slang and dialects

Charli xcx can do the funniest thing right now.

come on, make this White Girl Kendrick vs Drake

Swift sounds like AI slop, but no AI slop can capture her flavor of slop

That's the thing. Tiktok has a lot of great parodies, but what not even the best parodists can capture is just the sheer weirdness of her mixed-metaphors. That's a really individual thing, impossible to imitate

She reminds me of Dogberry with the sheer amount of malapropism and mixed metaphors that she packs in one verse.

Like how is it even possible, it's almost impressive.

omg good to see you here!

Why not include the homeless encampments in the profilmic environment? Can inspiration really only strike when your soundstage is scrubbed of all unpredictable real life? Battle of Algiers was made with non-professional actors who were in the FLN. OBAA was made with marquee name Zionists. nuff said.

Tents cleared from park ahead of movie filming, Sacramento Homeless Union says An unnamed movie directed by Paul Thomas Anderson and starring Leonardo Dicaprio, Sean Penn, Regina Hall, among others began filming in the city last week.

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Not just a political issue of hypocrisy, but directly ties into the aesthetic issue of why a subject such as a revolutionary uprising is portrayed in such a septic, small-scale, micromanaged way on screen. No sense of expansive lived reality.

We're partying it up at home

Let's fucking go!

#OtD 12 Aug 1887 pioneering Colombian socialist and women's rights advocate María Cano aka "flor del trabajo" ("flower of labour") was born. She gave fiery speeches to crowds of mining, oil and banana workers, and was repeatedly arrested stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/8368...

The fact that Letterboxd is explicitly marketed as a platform to get "cinephiles" to learn about "artistically significant" films only makes this worse. Almost a perfect breeding ground of "this place makes me feel I'm stupid" which leads to lashing out, etc

I've been part of the "blogosphere" back when it was a real thing with vibrant comments, and have seen my share of flame wars, but nothing compares to the sheer level of nastiness that piles up on the comment section of any moderately critical LB review, often more so if it's detailed and thoughtful

Not enough ppl talk about how #Letterboxd 's "logging"-based UI is perfectly structured to give young budding cinephiles an inferiority complex about their own tastes.

You open the app to find new recs, only to be met with a wall-feed of everyone who's watched more (and obscurer) films than you.

Which Monster? several film with that title

I'm noticing a trend (see Oppenheimer, Last Duel, and now, Weapons) where directors keep trying to use multiple POVs for the sake of a Rashomon-like effect... except they completely forget that the point of the device is to have the POVs exist in any sort of meaningful tension with each other!

between this and Celine Song saying Materialists is structurally a noir (?) and naming Zootopia her favorite, I'm starting to think the new crop of darling directors are simply very stupid

the connection to capitalism is even simpler: no matter what propaganda is circulating, you and your neighbors - even the ones you think are most different from you - definitely share problems.

"Blood-and-soil" style mystical race science in Past Lives... incel rhetoric in Materialists... casting Dasha Nekrasova... at Q&A making out-of-touch joke, while desperately stealing street-cred with fake-poverty anecdotes...

Celine Song's just a dimes-square style fascist, right? Right?

Pls can I have a watch pls

I need to watch more post-2000s movies...

(Also the movie I added was Nathan Fielder's "Finding Frances", idk why it's not showing up after I hit submit LMAO)

If he truly believed in what he writes here, he would've set his philosophical project as "renouncing cinema as an ontologically-evil artform" and not, "raping the audience into autonomy", lol.

Sad to report that China Labor Bulletin is no more. Ostensibly due to "financial problems", six members have been detained. CLB had promoted workers' rights and news in China since 1994.

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So whenever the majority of ppl liking my letterboxd reviews haven't logged the film, it makes me wonder -- is that a good sign that people like my writing style outside of context, or is it a bad sign that those who *have* watched the movie think I don't know what I'm talking about? 😂

A ★★ review of Materialists (2025) Like her debut feature Past Lives, only more so, Materialists is staggeringly blind towards its own ideology. She can masquerade with the gestures of social commentary and deconstruction all she wants...

I don't know why Celine Song's work makes me so mad, but something about the ideology just pushes all the wrong buttons in me. Possibly because of how obviously the ideology sits on the surface -- obviously, but also obliviously.

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