Counterpoint: A24 (and more recently Neon) have been cranking out great shit for years. Tons of amazing international stuff too. In 2050 nobody will remember today’s crap. They’ll all be talking about how great movies were back in the day.
I’ve noticed that female protagonists in movies set in the 80s often have the horror of the era dialed extremely far back, but then all her friends and other characters, especially antagonists, have full on crazy big 80s hair. I think everyone implicitly understands on some level what an aesthetic disaster the 80s were.
I don’t know what country you’re from, but the statistics regarding social mobility in the US have been terrible for decades and getting worse all the time.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Tight, unforgettable script. Depp and Del Toro killed it. Just perfectly directed. One of Terry Gilliam’s best films. Almost every line in the movie is quotable.
Netflix paid almost $500 million for two Knives Out sequels. Who knows what might happen after that.
Etymologically speaking, they’re actually opposites. Aesthetic comes from the Greek aisthetikos, which is feeling or perception. The prefix a- or an- makes it negative, which is why anesthetic means lack of feeling or perception.
What a perfect scene. Maya asks Miles why he loves Pinot Noir so much, and he goes into this long, abstract high-falootin disquisition about grapes and growing conditions and it’s all very literary and metaphorical. He’s not showing off on purpose but he just doesn’t know any other way to be. He talks about it the same way he talks about his novel. Then Miles asks Maya how she got into wine and she fumbles around for a minute before saying something more earthy and honest and true than anything Miles could ever come up with. Just perfect characterization from one of the greatest screenplays in history.
I saw it as a happy ending. Mostly he was depressed because of his failed writing career. I read the first few pages of the book once and it was clear that it was supposed to be the book he finally got published. So I think he ultimately found creative success, and probably a more content life.
Spotify could solve this problem any time. Obviously they don’t care.
A good solution would be to start a change.org petition to get Spotify to add an ‘Approve Playlist’ function to a users profile, along with a metric to indicate whether it was botted or not. That way they could no longer push the blame off onto the artists, and they’d actually have to deal with this problem themselves.
I’m not even remotely into metal but the first time I ever heard this guy it was obvious how good he was. Today I learned he has haters. People suck. Best of luck to him, he’s got the chops to play with literally anyone.
My fave Wes Anderson movie. Never understood the hate this one got. Thankfully it’s been undergoing something of a critical reevaluation of late.
Wow no mention yet of Emmanuel Lubezki. All the work he’s done with Malick, Cuaron, and Innaritu has been cinematic gold. If the only thing he ever did was The Tree of Life that would be enough to put him in the history books.
How about Jaan Pehechan Ho? Too western? Too old?
Also I probably don’t need to tell you to check out Sarah Thawer. She’s quite a badass drummer and she’s got some great videos on utilizing classical Indian rhythms on drumset.
Not just that but they’re all microdosing psychedelics too.
Phew. For a minute there I thought you were trying to control the narrative by silencing all criticism.
Brilliant work of art. All the more amazing when you realize David Lowery filmed it over the summer as a secret project on a tiny budget.
Love Tree of Life. One of my absolute favorites.
I sprung for a nice Synology NAS and put the biggest hard drives I could find in it. It’s been great liberating myself from physical media. The books though, you’ll have to pry them from my cold dead fingers.
My library system has been slowly cutting down its physical media collection for years. Clearly they’re trying to move everyone to Kanopy or Hoopla, which are… just more streaming options subject to the same arbitrary whims of ‘rights holders’ as everywhere else.
We don’t seem to live in a society that values perpetual archival accessibility to art. Unless and until the Supreme Court or Congress gets its shit together and creates a meaningful legal notion of digital ownership suitable for the 21st Century, having physical control over what you love is sadly necessary.
I already have a floor to ceiling wall of physical books so I really don’t want tons of DVDs filling up space too, and compatible players will eventually disappear, but the middle path of storing digital copies on a NAS works for me. Nobody can delete what I’ve got on my Plex server.
Wow, what did you work on if you don’t mind me asking? Anyone involved in what they’ve been doing over the last 15 years deserves lavish praise. I just hope they can keep up the good work in the face of VC pressure to produce more ‘action movies and IP’ or whatever their new focus is.
Does every generation revere the movies they grew up with?
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