Paula Beer Is the Riddling Heart of Christian Petzold’s Cinema The acclaimed performer has become a mainstay in the German auteur’s increasingly spare, haunting cinema – what’s the secret to the strange magic they produce on screen?

“Riddling Heart” is a perfect description here.

Paula Beer Is the Riddling Heart of Christian Petzold’s Cinema The acclaimed performer has become a mainstay in the German auteur’s increasingly spare, haunting cinema – what’s the secret to the strange magic they produce on screen?

“Riddling Heart” is a perfect description here.

🎬 Hegseth copied Tarantino who copied “Chiba the Bodyguard”

Tarantino 'borrowed' the source material of the "Pulp Fiction" monologue that Hegseth delivered at a Pentagon prayer service

Tarantino's words essentially came from “The Bodyguard”, a 1973 Sonny Chiba karate flick 🥋

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

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Screenshot of Youtube at the end of the Massive Attack/Tom Waits video showing the next thing to watch as “Quartet for the End of Time”

The Youtube Algo doing its thing at the end of the new Massive Attack/Tom Waits video “Boots on the Ground”

Massive Attack / Tom Waits - Boots on the Ground YouTube video by Massive Attack

The intensity…

Film created by Massive Attack (working with US photo artist thefinaleye)…comes in the aftermath of the largest public protests in American history - focused on opposition to ICE raids, the militarisation of domestic forces, and state authoritarianism.

The United States is destroying itself | Rebecca Solnit The daily news can’t adequately convey the administration’s sabotaging of our government, economy, alliances and environment

The old aphorism about how long it takes an aircraft carrier to turn around might be why the nation seems relatively stable...the full impact is yet to come...it will start taking on water or listing badly or hit an iceberg, or perhaps the iceberg has been there all along...Donald Trump.

“Anthropic had the ability to hack into basically anything, in a situation in which no one would have known such a thing was even possible, and wouldn’t be looking.They made the decision to give up that power and start Project Glasswing. They want to take The Ring to Mordor. “

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What are examples of actual traditional IPA?

Ron Howard has made a film about the #photographer Richard Avedon.

Oddly, doesn't seem like much info about it, other than it premiering at Cannes

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#photography

Carnage (2011) Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behavior throws the discussion into chaos.

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The Invite (2026) Joe and Angela’s marriage is on thin ice. When they invite their enigmatic upstairs neighbors for a dinner party, the night spirals into unexpected places.

"The Invite" looks good. Maybe an updated Carnage, though that was great.

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Wall text and an image introducing the photographs of Ocean Vuong

Went to the Center for #Photography in Woodstock last weekend to see Ocean Vuong's exhibition as well as Nona Faustine's. Both were wonderful in their own way.

Newsletter #197 - The Triangle of Quality as it relates to how much you care about cameras.

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Oh how I love the sweet sounds of spring, the gentle hum of the environment being destroyed by gas-powered lawn tools.

This is an actual post. This is not funny. This is beyond desperate. This is a deeply unwell man who doesn’t belong anywhere near the levers of power. Every member of his cabinet and Congress is complicit in not demanding his removal now.

The Department of State tweets a video of Secretary Marco Rubio. In the video, Rubio says: "Imagine if instead of spending billions of dollars supporting terrorists or weapons, Iran had spent that money helping the people of Iran. They would have a much different country."

FactPost News tweets a video of Donald Trump speaking at a podium. In the video he says: "We can't take care of daycare. We're a big country. We're fighting wars. It's not possible for us to take care of daycare, Medicaid, Medicare, all these things."

hmm

Going to two of these. Double feature with:

Silent Friend (Q&A with Ildikó Enyedi and Tony Leung!),

and

Chungking Express (how many times does one need to see this, I don't know, but I lost count).

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You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something about it. From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, ‘Look at that, you son of a bitch

This quote from Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell has been in my head the last few days

The Grandmaster: Tony Leung Marking his first return to FLC in more than 25 years, this career-spanning retrospective gives audiences the chance to rediscover, on the big screen, why the world continues to fall for Tony Leung ti...

What a wonderful lineup! 📽️

This is interesting. Do you know what happened in the trial? Did a quick search and it looks like your was the last reporting in the case.

Watch OLIVIERO TOSCANI IN OLIVIERO TOSCANI (2014) A documentary film by Francesco G. Raganato | Italy | 2014 | 25 minutes - Benetton’s shock images: Toscani defends advertising as a political gesture.

Wow, what an interesting/outspoken #photographer! If you didn’t know (like me), Oliviero Toscani is known mostly for the Benetton campaigns, but his career is basically one of bravado and great talent.

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You might enjoy the book it's based on. More damning than the film.

ah, thus The Bear reference. The "Boiling Point" movie was good - never felt compelled to watch the TV show

Oh the first Beef was a real surprise. I think it was great, and relieved that season 2 would not merely drag out the first season.

It’s a good idea—I ‘think’ started with True Detective, and now White Lotus, etc.—to repay the concept instead of the story line.

Banksy Was Here Banksy, the invisible man of graffiti art, sees himself as a “quality vandal”—and his anti-authoritarian whimsy has won him a colossal following.

More Banksys please:

…a quote from the artist on the matter of his anonymity. “I have no interest in ever coming out,” he once said. “I figure there are enough self-opinionated assholes trying to get their ugly little faces in front of you as it is.”

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Video essay: “Beauty and Solitude: The Cities of Wong Kar Wai” | MUBI YouTube video by MUBI

Big love for WKW

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Zohran Mamdani just dropped a spoof of the Smile films called "Municipal Grin."

Post by Dan Rather: “It's tempting to use the analogy of rats fleeing a sinking ship to describe the growing number of Republican elected officials starting to speak out against Donald Trump. But that's really not fair to rats, who tend not to be complicit in driving ships to the bottom of the sea.”

Amused by the Republicans who are jumping ship now. So…the concentration camps (etc!) weren’t enough, but high gas prices really do it?