So, yeah. The movies are made independently.
But much, much more importantly… the audience is made independent of the system that would make them a manufactured commodity. Independent films necessitate and create independent audiences."
But in this age of the IP management and franchise farming, a better definition would be “movies made outside the conglomerate system that feeds back its audience into itself.”
"So with this in mind, what does “Independent Film” mean?
Yeah, a common definition would be: “A film made outside the major studio system.” And maybe that was a working definition a few years ago, when the studio system made movies as a commodity, instead of manufacturing audiences.
Check out my preview of the 23rd Independent Film Festival Boston at the @theartsfuse.bsky.social @iffboston.bsky.social
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Current Mood... Avenging Zap Rowsdower!!!!
How our allies see us... France24 reporting on the reaction in Italy to Trump's attacks on the Pope and his blasphemous use of AI....
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BONUS: Nice lady with an accent I can’t place just offered me half her lobster roll.
Buying food downtown. I’ve lost count of how many languages I’ve heard. Arabic. Italian. Portuguese. Chinese. Maybe Turkish? I love it. Makes me feel like I’m really part of the world.
What our allies think... from France24
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'This all leads to a “closing window of creativity,” to quote a screenwriter interviewed by Osterweil. Nothing is a story, all is just “content,” to be Borg-assimilated into the Red-Pill-proof Matrix that is Disney’s body of IPs.'
Check out my review of the book _The Extended Universe: How Disney Killed the Movies and Took Over the World_ by Vicky Osterweil at @theartsfuse.bsky.social
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Current Mood... MOONWATCHER!!!
You should get a sense of how our allies are thinking of Trump. A Dutch professor on French TV news...
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"Join us, Thursday nights on ABC for THAT'S MY BARON! Wackiness ensues when a hard-working Planetary Governor with a Heart of Gold takes in his two kooky nephews while dealing with nosy neighbors from the Spacing Guild and the schemings of House Corrino! Join us for the Love and the Laughter!"
Watching a woman get more and more stoned by vaping, eating a bigger and bigger pile of snacks. Live your best life!!!
"As the credits rolled the first time I saw _Alpha_, I said to myself, “What the Hell was that?!”
Five minutes later the full weight of it hit me like a dropped cinderblock.
The second time I saw it, I bawled my eyes out.
Alpha is a fucking masterpiece."
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Wow... Kubrick's LOLITA hits differently in a Post-Epstein world. People talk about EYES WIDE SHUT being prescient. Look at this scene... Is Sellers doing a Woody Allen impression?
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An apparently outclassed Eowyn in mortal combat with Angmar, leader of the Nazgûl. The style is of a bold woodcut.
In a forest, the Hobbits Merry and Pippin sit on the “arms” of the Elk Treebeard while discussing matters with him.
The destruction of Mount Doom. Lightning bolts fire out from a mountain’s summit while a blast carries away its mid-section.
“The Grey Havens” - Three figures on a hill watch a lone ship sail out to sea. The trip ahead is shown to be sunny, leaving behind the rainy skies over the land being left behind.
Some of the small spot illustrations by Eric Fraser that accompanied the Radio Times magazine’s weekly listings for the BBC’s 1981 radio adaptation of Tolkein’s “The Lord Of The Rings”.
SUZI QUATRO AND ALICE COOPER COVER THE MC5!!!! FUCK, YEAH!!!!
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HAPPY TOLKIEN READING DAY!!! March 25th is the day the Ring was destroyed. Celebrate by reading some of the Professor today!! #Tolkien #TolkienReadingDay
Eddie Izzard spins her one-person adaptation of Hamlet for the Trump era. My review...
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I don't know if I'll miss traditional publishing. I've been involved with it in various capacities since 1990, and its been in a state of perpetual crisis the whole time, many of which were of the industry's own creation. It was just a matter of time before one of these crises hit a vital spot.
All the dystopian shit I grew up on is no longer futuristic fantasy, it’s reportage. Ballard, Atwood, Butler, Lafferty, Dick, Russ, Tiptree, Aldiss, Brunner, Sheckley, Cronenberg. The cacotopian shit has all come true.”
It’s hugely refreshing to have that nifty, teen nerd aesthetic in a major science fiction release. Why? Because, living in an actual dystopia, it’s kind of a bummer to sit through another SF premise like the latest Hunger Games installment, The Long Walk, Mickey 17, and that Running Man remake."
Check out my review of PROJECT HAIL MARY at The Arts Fuse! @theartsfuse.bsky.social
#ProjectHailMary
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Jesus fucking god… we’re doomed
RS Benedict correctly pointed out that in modern movies, "Everyone is Beautiful, and No One Is Horny." People are hating on _The Bride!_. I liked it a lot. But love it or hate hate it, _The Bride_ is HORNY AS F*CK!! And for that alone, we have to praise Maggie Gyllenhaal and extend thanks to her.
Each time I see this movie, it's a different film. And each of those different films, I love. Jerzy Skolimowski's THE SHOUT. Based on a Robert Graves story, starring Alan Bates, John Hurt, Susannah York, Tim Curry, and Robert Stephens.
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