Saw it last year so I forget the specifics, but I seem to recall a few instances of “I do not think that word means what you think it means.”
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Saw it last year so I forget the specifics, but I seem to recall a few instances of “I do not think that word means what you think it means.”
Town of Foxborough (yes that’s the proper spelling) to Krafts re: World Cup security money: Quit lying.
I’m loving this. www.foxboroughma.gov/news/what_s_...
For paid subscribers to the Spliced Personality Substack I’ve got some highlights from my Q&A last week with SIRĀT director Oliver Laxe and screenwriter Santiago Fillol.
At the Spliced Personality Substack this week I reviewed Oliver Laxe’s SIRĀT, which is currently screening on 35mm at the Coolidge Corner Theatre. See it loud.
Love watching news networks blather on about the skill and precision of the world’s most elite “warfighters” while we’re blundering around blowing up schools as our F-15s shoot each other out of the sky.
On the Nature of Daylight Savings
“Dignified.” He’s wearing a fucking baseball cap.
The film itself rejected digital representation.
We read critics for the perceptions, for what they tell us that we didn't fully grasp when we saw the work. The judgments we can usually make for ourselves. (1989)
Seeing EASY RIDER on an original 35mm release print that’s all pink-shifted and beat to shit might actually be the best way to watch it.
We heard there was a movie called HOPPERS opening today but came to see this instead.
The reviews are in!
With SIRĀT director Oliver Laxe and screenwriter Santiago Fillol right before I stepped on a landmine.
I should have called on you!
At WBUR this week I reviewed Maggie Gyllenhaal’s THE BRIDE EXCLAMATION POINT, which I got a big kick out of. Your mileage may vary.
Willow is so good at this.
TONIGHT! I’ll be hosting a Q&A with SIRĀT director Oliver Laxe and screenwriter Santiago Fillol following the 7pm show at the Coolidge. And our friend @jshawhan.bsky.social is handling the Nashville screening on Sunday, so obviously these people have great taste in moderators.
This is amazing.
www.getyourfuckingmoneyback.com
Writer/director John Sayles’s first and last studio film, the under-appreciated Rosanna Arquette and Vincent Spano vehicle “Baby It’s You,” was released on this day in 1983: crookedmarquee.com/classic-corn...
“The effect is a little like Sissy Spacek’s deadened voiceover in BADLANDS, affectlessly floating over the obviously horrific without ever acknowledging it.” Classic Vadim.
The line about the dyslexic girl who put Tampax in her nose is arguably one of the most perfect jokes ever written.
It’s me, the one who regularly gets made fun of for crying at sappy movies by a fourteen-year-old girl.
Shit My Niece Says: “It’s not that I’m a coldhearted person, it’s just that you’re too emotional.”
At the Spliced Personality Substsck this week I reviewed BILLY PRESTON: THAT’S THE WAY GOD PLANNED IT.
Coming up on a month of the Spliced Personality Substack and I wanted to thank everyone who’s subscribed for helping me out. It means the world. If you haven’t checked it out yet, feel free to drop by and see if there’s anything here you’d like to let me put in your inbox.
It was going to be Robert Duvall
It really is crazy. The whole weekend was an embarrassment of riches.
Lunar New Year is an annual bonanza for Chinese BO. It's easy enough to plan around. The fact that US media still don't though suggests that these blind spots aren't oversights. Major outlets can boast all they like about their commitment to diversity, but their spotty coverage says otherwise.
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