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Learning that John Waters and Johnnie To have the same birthday... we must combine the Johns for an anthology feature.

John Waters on camp, Trump and being Mr. Know-It-All The cult filmmaker received the Pardo d’onore Manor career achievement award at Switzerland’s Locarno Film Festival. It was a nice excuse for a chat.

Happy Birthday, John Waters, my one interviewee for The Face (RIP)
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‘In two years, nobody will care’ if actors are AI or not, predicts La Haine director Mathieu Kassovitz, who is currently working on an AI-enabled film, also dismisses concerns over copyright

It's obviously not always people whose careers have long tailed off in relevance or merit, but...

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How are Reese Witherspoon’s NFTs doing

The new VERY hagriographic Michael Jackson biopic starring MJ's nephew is out at the end of the month. But back in 2004 an unauthorised and EQUALLY flattering biopic was made in Canada. Here is a clip and I promise you have NO idea where it's going. I haven't done a single edit here.

I think the fifth Transformers already used one from the same album, maybe even the same song.

Keir Starmer, singing Closer by Nine Inch Nails, wearing nothing but a pair of chaps, his body as slick with baby oil as his hair is with Brylcreem

Paramount leading the Jackson stans away from critics for at least a few hours

Yeah! Criticism is also context, and a film like Michael is an open attempt at removing context. It is not just a movie in a studio slate! It is a concerted effort from interested parties!

A 4K Restoration Brings Explosive Sundance Winner ‘I Shot Any Warhol’ Back to Theaters Janus FIlms will re-release the Mary Harron's 'I Shot Andy Warhol' starring Lili Taylor in theaters for its 30th anniversary.

Janus FIlms will re-release the Mary Harron's 'I Shot Andy Warhol' starring Lili Taylor in theaters for its 30th anniversary.

Japan's jishu-eiga scene is really amazing.
A place where films made for barely nothing can get proper theatrical runs in cinemas, allowing for many young voices to get a footing in the industry.
While the majority of these films never leave Japan, we're happy to do our share.

“My Best Ideas Come To Me On Walks”: Sho Miyake on Two Seasons, Two Strangers Somewhere in a tower block, a Korean woman (Shim Eun-kyung) sits at a table in front of a blank piece of paper and pauses to think. After a moment, she begins to write. From her pencil, a scene emerge...

"I’ll give you two examples of works that served as inspirations. The first is Buster Keaton’s Sherlock Jr., and the second is Tony Scott’s Déjà Vu."

Sho Miyake talks with @blakethinks.bsky.social about his delicate, gorgeously picturesque Golden Leopard-winning Two Seasons, Two Strangers:

what if i fucking kill you

I do not want to be on guard when I read manuscripts. I do not want to be on guard when I read slush. I do not want to be on guard when I listen to music, when I look at visual art, when I WATCH A FUCKING COMMERCIAL. I hate Altman so much I burn with it. He and his kind have stolen the WONDER.

is it the one who complained his phone didn't work because it got too hot but he submerged it in a pool *checks and finds I'm now blocked* helllll yeahhhh

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Ali

Facial recognition to be 'rolled out' across UK after human rights challenge fails Minister says 'law abiding citizens have nothing to fear' after judges rule in favour of police use of live facial recognition technology in London.

The government have carried out their consultation, totally ignored the responses and are introducing country wide facial recognition

Those masks serve a number of purposes😷

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Hmm maybe if we vibe code through it

Tested positive for Covid

This is horrific. I feel physically ill.

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Birthday haul

Fascinating movie

I'm not sure my French is good enough to understand the full subtleties of Libé's review of the Michael Jackson biopic

Thank you Zorb

a man wearing sunglasses and a black shirt is saying rock and roll ALT: a man wearing sunglasses and a black shirt is saying rock and roll

Spending my birthday trying to sleep off a fever

the Labour Party will never love its actual voters as much as it loves its imagined ideal voters (who do not, in fact, vote for them)

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Phil Spector biopic that ends with his receiving a call to work on the sessions for Starsailor's 2003 album Silence is Easy