SilverImperator

imagine a modern novelist with no interest in James, Eliot, Kafka, Joyce, &c... imagine reading in dull agony as they clumsily reinvent those wheels. imagine they never even bother to drive the car afterward. this is ~90% of contemporary cinema.

I fully believe that study showing short form video causes physical brain atrophy, because what the fuck do you mean young people are struggling with different narrative perspectives.

Cronenberg on American intellectuals

Relationships deserve this type of energy 💕😂🫶🏾

I find reading Roger Ebert reviews of David Lynch genuinely kind of frustrating because he writes about the work as ingenuine and parodic. Watching Roger talk on tv with Gene about Lynch is way better because it sounds like he thinks decrying some rascally film trickster or imp

I have never felt more different, more abandoned by friends and community, more Jewish than this moment. Anti semitism is rampant and its not even noticed by any non Jews in my world. Being Jewish today means feeling softly cancelled in small and sometimes big ways every day. Being Jewish means choosing between your gut which wants to scream truths and your heart which wants to belong in your broader communities. Do you speak up when friends, coworkers, kids’ teachers casually reference ‘free palestine’ or ‘Israeli genocide’? Our world is no longer driven by facts and truth. Nobody cares enough to hear that the NYT headlines from 12 months ago have all been proven wrong. Our world no longer cares about moral clarity or equivalency. Nobody is bothered that the US govt and Israel are held to a diff standard than the IRGC, Hamas or Hezbollah. Defending borders is called Fascism. Terrorism is reframed as resistance. I do appreciate so many of you here on X which has become my online community and only social media. I feel your presence, brotherhood and sisterhood. I see and support so many of you in your own efforts to surface hard truths. Even when we disagree i enjoy the debates. Its an outlet i dont have with my friends and community IRL where all of these topics are off limits. too charged. Thank you.

Steven Spielberg explains why he didn't like 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' (1984) & why he felt he was fated to make the movie: “I wasn’t happy with 'Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom' (1984) at all. It was too dark, too subterranean, & much too horrific. I thought it out-poltered 'Poltergeist' (1982). There’s not an ounce of my own personal feeling in 'Temple of Doom'. I look back and I say, ‘Well, the greatest thing that I got out of that movie was I met Kate Capshaw. We were married years later that to me was the reason I was fated to make 'Temple of Doom'.” ("Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom: An Oral History", Paul Bullock, Medium, 2017)

Guarisove, los olvidados (1995), dir. Bruno Stagnaro

>Woman feels oppressed after being politely asked to suck in her gut for a photoshoot Meanwhile Christian Bale: