it's been over sixty years and no film promo pic has gone as hard as this still of tippi hedren lighting one up with a crow for alfred hitchcock's 'the birds' (1963)

Richard Foreman, 'How to Write a Play'

it's the role he was born to play

even godard hated VAR

What's there to fix???

Cursed collab, but I do want this jersey

You know that I have a tendency to do that, to spoil my holidays.

david sylvian and lucrecia dalt are such a power couple, and these posts are so great. real lovers stand up.

just found out that there’s a 35mm scan of eyes wide shut that features a squashed fly on one of the frames

Now for some happy news, according to this Korean media report, Kim Min-hee is pregnant and Hong Sang-soo is expected to become a father later this year news.nate.com/view/20250117n…

"Lacan reminds us that the French word for “‘strange’ offers an amusing pun—étrange, être-ange.” When one says “strange” in French, one also unavoidably says “angel-being” or “to be an angel.” Richard Boothby

There's an incredible section in this where he compares the Lynchian drone to the sound at the edge of the universe: an echo of the big bang which can't be removed or separated from space bc the sound "forms the ontological horizon" for space itself 🥵

Feels very appropriate that musk, a world-historical embarrassment of a human being, is South Africa's greatest export

Alexander Kluge explains film in 1 minute

We're pleased to announce that Cinema Guild have acquired the films of Margarida Cordeiro and António Reis for theatrical and home-video release: thefilmstage.com/exclusive-cine…

"The egregious merit of Chaplin is that he has escaped in his own way from the realism of the cinema and invented a rhythm. Of course, the unexplored opportunities of the cinema for eluding realism must be very great." - T.S. Elliot, 1924

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Kinda shit Jia Zhangke cuts to in between generational heartache. He’s a master

it’s a crowd favorite for good reason