obviously nothing but bangers here, but don't sleep on THE MISSION, which feels a little bit like hawks making a heroic bloodshed film, and features one of the most joyous scenes in all of cinema that is just dudes kicking around a ball of paper.

happy birthday to the great Johnnie To, master of geometrically precise groupings of guns and meals.

Fuck it, 40+ films by Johnnie To. This link will self-destruct in 24 hours.

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one of god's most perfect creatures.

Pearl-clutching over protests from people with nothing to say about the slaughter of Palestinians is hard to take. But the literal White House casting protesters as terror sympathizers while it funds a genocide will be a clarifying/radicalizing moment for a generation of students

friend:
you ok man? you kinda spaced out there for a second

me:
oh ya i’m fine no worries

[inside my brain:]

you know things are serious when the mayor has to take the drastic step of directing the police to investigate violations of the law and arrest people who break the law

This is why it’s the best film in the series

finally talked about the brilliance of james gray, his debut feature LITTLE ODESSA, and how his latest work ARMAGEDDON TIME feels like a necessary and liberating bookend to the autobiographical elements of his filmography. film enjoyer 🇵🇸🇱🇧 is my guest.

Julia Holter talked about this in my recent interview with her

On the same weekend that the house passed $26.4b to Israel and a ban on TikTok, the Biden White House is firmly planting itself on the side of smearing the peaceful Columbia student protests––who have been subject to abuse from college admin and NYPD––as violent and racist.

A too-short word about Edward Yang's great and grand A Brighter Summer Day, at Film at Lincoln Center at 5p.m., a long masterwork that gets its form from its symbols:  
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NEW PREMIUM HIT FACTORY // film enjoyer 🇵🇸🇱🇧 joins to discuss the career of director (and notoriously great interview subject) James Gray and his striking debut feature LITTLE ODESSA. Link below.

Had a blast talking with Aaron - and you should subscribe to this excellent podcast!

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björk and goldie for i-D magazine, 1996.