Thinking, as I often do, of Catherine Deneuve talking to Arnaud Desplechin about Miami Vice: filmcomment.com/article/cather…

Who's doing a Clouddington double feature this weekend

The grand contradiction of America is that they need us to keep consuming but they also do not want to pay us. They will shame you for not spending enough while simultaneously not paying you enough to spend.

“Life is too short to read fiction” probably one of the most depressing statements i’ve ever seen on this garbage platform

King of the Hill is the first years-later Tv show since Twin Peaks that’s great. And like Peaks it has a haunted quality: the passage of time is allowed to matter.

Weapons is nothing but one structural plot gimmick (the one from Barbarian) employed over and over. No soul, no texture, no point despite the disturbing implications of the premise. But it looks important and has great PR so it's one of the most praised movies of the year.

This is also how Mike Leigh and Timothy Spall settled disagreements while making Mr. Turner.

Every Paul Newman story: "He won his race car after beating the Devil in a contest to see who could make the most delicious vinaigrette" Every Marlon Brando story: "Brando insisted The Hamburglar was real, alive in the Philippines, and responsible for his financial troubles."

Most critics praise seemingly everything, yet they dismiss Honey Don’t! which is pretty good. A real neonoir with a sense of humor. Much better than Drive-Away Dolls.

Highest 2 Lowest: an elaborate, smug, reactionary self-congratulation party disguised as a riff on High and Low. Too shaggy and indulgent to work as a thriller; more interesting than good, especially for how it rejects Kurosawa's class concerns.

Caught Stealing: making Guy Ritchie movies is harder than it looks.

El Capitan, by Yoshida Hiroshi, 1925

Spinal Tap II is no one's idea of a good movie, but it wears its nostalgia surprisingly well, with a final act that is authentically poignant. Its irrelevance becomes its grace.

Could not agree more.

With schools gutting their science & humanities programs and the tech industry keen to make us dumber, it’s time to revive the concept of the autodidact: self-education for the pure joy of learning. Read great books. Form study groups. Be passionate in the pursuit of knowledge.

You’re not a true cinephile unless you have at least 5 movies in your regular rotation that you freely admit are objectively terrible

Notice how Sinners detractors don’t seem to have any idea that the movie is among other things a musical?

"You need to get used to the task of writing. You must make an effort to learn to regard it, not as something painful, but as routine." --- Akira Kurosawa

true cinephilia starts at owning every sequel in a horror franchise on physical media even if only the first and third movies are good