All these #AmyMadigan "stans" never once mentioning 'Streets of Fire' proves the entire lot of them are posers.

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Possibly the highest compliment I’ve ever been paid! Any meaningful insight on my part regarding the artistry of Brian De Palma, and cinema as a whole, is thanks in no small part to the wisdom & probing analysis of the great Armond White!! Godspeed as always, sir!!!

Moments like this aren’t extraneous, they’re the *essence* of the story.

I was pleasantly surprised by the Pope's speech! Even if certain language *could* be interpreted as incorrectly encouraging sociopolitical messaging, his quoting Griffith while identifying the populist & SACRAMENTAL purpose of cinema are right on: tinyurl.com/yc39uddt

Art transcends politics:

"I will NOT go to second level with you!!"

Desperately needs a proper North American release 👇

The fallacy that cinema is a flimsy IDEA-logical medium (rather than a visceral, sensory, awe-inspiring one whose grandeur & spectacle can impart transcendence) is so pervasively destructive because it trains gullible "cinephiles" to regard shallow, sub-par work as "intellectual"

This👇is a good microcosm of why art & culture have become so impoverished thanks to the fallacy that "everything is political", which has led to the misconception that art - & life itself - can be boiled down to the ideological rather than the transcendent.

*De Palma's* 'Bonfire' is a great moral epic expressing still-prescient insight into American race relations ('Dragged Across Concrete' might be the lone contemporary vision to match it) that only frauds & hype-merchants could mistake for "one of the worst movies ever made".

Beyond the violence, Peckinpah's pervasive artistic power is rooted in his instincts as a dramatist who utilized film form to kinetically express interactions between people that palpably revealed [his/their/our] naked humanity, making him an ACTION director in the fullest sense.

There is no "diversity" in Hollywood when all the work produced 'says' the same thing & when everybody's individual experience (including, but not limited to, one's ethnic/racial, sexual/gender &/or cultural background) is homogenized into a monolithic ideological perspective.