Even if Keir Starmer was not consciously referencing Enoch Powell (I believe he was, for the record), is it any better if he arrived at imagery dangerously close to Powell's through his own independent thought process?

There is no difference between a Tory govt deporting refugee claimants to a Rwandan concentration camp and a Labour govt deporting refugee claimants to a concentration camp in Albania.

Can't pass judgement until I've seen it, but there's something so wrong-headed about making this such a one-to-one approximation of the era, considering Godard spent so much of his career experimenting with the possibilities of cinematic historiography x.com/IndieWire/stat…

I do like that Truffaut is introduced like a fan favourite side character in a studio sitcom

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Kiarostami, Davies, Rohmer, Cronenberg, Hamaguchi, Stillman x.com/_Sheehogue_/st…

chantal akerman talking about miami vice 2006 (unprompted)

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Counterpoint: Keir Starmer will not acknowledge the causes behind the past 15 years of failure, because he is adamantly committed to perpetuating these causes for professional gain. x.com/NewStatesman/s…

Off-the-cuff list:

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Samuel Beckett's letter to Sergei Eisenstein from 1936, asking to be admitted to his film school

Apichatpong Weerasethakul Claire Denis Leos Carax Lav Diaz Jia Zhangke x.com/herelieselijah…

Scott Walker, The Drift The Velvet Underground, White Light/White Heat x.com/westemwind/sta…

Favourite performances of the year so far x.com/EzraCubero/sta…

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