Wir! the German TV epic w Dieter Laser (Human Centipede)

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The best films of 2025 i saw in 2025* *the only ones In 2025 I didn’t see many films released in 2025. (I saw 5.) It doesn’t surprise me. My theater-going habit has declined with the rest of the country. Plus as noticed in the results …

(I did see Eddington in 2025. But didn't remember that until long after this was written. A forgettable Ari Aster film? Apparently that can happen)

"PROVE ME WRONG"

"Show me a single fucking clip in the past 8 yrs of Donald Trump speaking INTELLIGENTLY about any policy decision, domestic or foreign."

"YOU WILL NOT FIND A SINGLE ONE. Not a single clip of the POTUS speaking like he has any fucking idea about policy whatsoever."

A Shining Mausoleum on a Hill Life, death, and the rampage of ICE.

"Americans have been misled by pundits who proclaim the US a 'nation of laws.' It makes no difference if the US is a nation of laws when courts are selective in their application. Autocracies are nations of laws, too." sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/a-shining-...

This guy knows the one pair of orange ears he has to reach, between naps.

Thee Harry Caul's January 2026 List: Straub-Huillet, Les Vampires, 12 Unwatched Discs & Maya Deren-fest on Criterion & Kanopy A list of 36 films compiled on Letterboxd, including Quatermass and the Pit (1967), Robinson Crusoe (1902), Hard to Be a God (2013), Face to Face (1976) and Santa Sangre (1989).

This year I'm catching up on Louis Feuillade's Les Vampires serial about Les Apaches: an underground criminal gang in turn to of the century Paris. Also diving into Straub-Huilet's films, Maya Deren's complete on Criterion, and some more I have on disc I haven't watched yet.

I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.

He's so happy he's shitting himself. I mean he's always shitting himself, that's what the diaper is for, but here it's because he's happy.

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It's on the Criterion Channel right now. I had waited for it for awhile. Maybe a Janus release in the future?

Goodbye CBS, too bad about your network I guess.

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Excerpt from here: https://sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/my-top-ten-articles-of-2025

On my 21st-century travelogue, THE LAST AMERICAN ROAD TRIP: sarahkendzior.substack.com/p/my-top-ten...

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or . . . The elite impunity that is society cannot be convincingly demonstrated.

The crisis of elite impunity that is ruining our society cannot be more clearly or convincingly demonstrated than with the fact that all of these people wrote all this stuff into an email and hit Send.

Silent but deadly.

That man won't even recognize his own family by 2028.

Beware the Oligarch's AI Bubble They’re likely to burst.

Two impeachments last time. This time we get two crashes.

He’s parading his scams in public constantly already. Coins, TrumpRX, his social media platform, ads for resorts on Gaza, FIFA deals, etc.

Beardo No. 1

Well-reported piece on publishing. But what I've found is that great sales make your publisher mad at you. I earned out my advance on all of my books, which I know is rare, and thought would be good. But I got treated worse with each book, down to them not even providing books to a sold-out launch.

If it weren't for Obama's constant ridiculous bipartisan offerings to these racists, Comey wouldn't have been appointed.

That seems to be the norm now, to just not talk about how he's falling apart weekly right in front of us. Making policy decisions based on images on his shiny wall tvs.

Elysium wasn't even that good of a movie.

I can't predict the content, but he will def be screaming. And there will be loads of pomade in his hair.

China won the electric car race. Up next: freight trucks Nine Chinese giants dominate a market Tesla and Volvo can barely crack.

BYD, the Chinese automaker that overtook Tesla in electric car sales last year, is now shipping electric freight trucks to Italy, Poland, Spain, and Mexico. In total, Chinese companies accounted for 80% of the world’s 90,000 electric cargo truck sales last year