@blakethinks Oh they’re gonna light you up for this (correct) take
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Joseph / йосиф 🇺🇦
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@MaitreyaBhakal No one is regarding Renate Reinsve as “the pinnacle of western acting”, this is a classification you’ve totally made up in your head
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Renate Reinsve is the quintessential western actor: Soulless face, empty eyes, bland body language, stoic dialogue delivery, and an exotic name, like those French words that critics claim to know how to pronounce to sound sophisticated.
This person being considered the pinnacle of western acting is completely on brand, which tells you more about the West's standards than hers. NPCs in modern video games possess better acting talent.
Western cinema standards were never very high. Just observe how easily the Soviets mogged well-established western movie industries repeatedly. Centuries of head start and virtually limitless productive capacity - only to be surpassed by a socialist country within a few decades. And China will soon deliver the second humiliation, as it has already started doing for the video game industry.
The standards at Cannes are amongst the lowest in the world. Which is precisely why it needs an endless supply of money and red carpets to survive. The replacement of emotional emptiness for artistic depth is peak Cannes, peak France, and peak westernness all rolled into one.
A local theatre actor from any Indian town would have done a better job in SENTIMENTAL VALUE, not just with the depth of emotion and expression, but with vocal range too.
You can call it a "decay", but that would be a category error, because it was never too alive and fresh to begin with. It seems the downfall of western civilization, such as it was, is now fully extending to art and culture.
We are so back.
cinesthetic.@TheCinesthetic
Renate Reinsve’s Cannes run is becoming legendary: • 2021 — The Worst Person in the World (Best Actress Winner) • 2024 — Armand (Camera d’Or) • 2025 — Sentimental Value (Grand Prix) • 2026 — Fjord (Palme d’Or)
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Stop this madness it was one cliche after another
Variety@Variety
COLUMN: Inde Navarrette’s performance in #Obsession should be remembered (and, more importantly, actually considered) come award season. Her work is singularly brave and brilliant, standing alongside rich horror performances in recent years like Lupita Nyong’o in “Us” and Toni Collette in “Hereditary.” Voters, don’t make the same mistake you did by ignoring those lauded women. Read the full column: wp.me/pc8uak-1lHhMO
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@vnbvrnt It’s absolutely awful but for some reason the children will shout you down for suggesting this
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people who just started watching movies 6 months ago
jordan@wickskiller
i can’t stop thinking about how deeply unsettling curry barker uses darkness in obsession. it’s such a creative choice that is simple in concept but the execution is nothing like you’ve ever seen before. it makes wish nikki look like a terrifying shadow you can’t ever escape.
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@Alex_Niven What band were you in if you supported both the automatic and the maccabees 👀
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Now we’re talking
1. Jamiroquai (bonus point, first gig, ha)
2. Fatboy Slim
3. The Maccabees (bonus point, supported them)
4. Muse
5. The Killers
6. Mika
7. Kasabian
8. The Automatic (also supported)
9. Ordinary Boys
10. Jack Penate
Ally Fogg@AllyFogg
That 10 bands thing is way too smug. So... Introduce yourself with 10 bands you're ashamed to have seen. 1. Toploader 2. Rolf Harris 3. Atomic Kitten 4. Fairground Attraction 5. Kiss 6. N-Dubz 7. Sigue Sigue Sputnik 8. David Grey 9. Daphne & Celeste 10. Lostprophets
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@baileylikemovie Yeah and it looks like and is written like shit, mad
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Genuinely how many films in history have made over 100x their budget? This has got to be one of the biggest success stories of the decade
DiscussingFilm@DiscussingFilm
‘OBSESSION’ may become one of the only films in history to earn $100M+ on a budget of less than $1M. The film is expected to earn more this weekend than it did in its opening weekend, a rare feat.
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They’re turning tracadero into a mega spoons, wtf timeout.com/london/news/lo…
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@England People replying with their squad selections and ignoring how this video fucking rules
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Ah we’re in the fans pissing their pants over the England squad selection for the next week stage of World Cup preparation
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@Nerdspringbreak Because often writing about something in their life / trauma / relationships / whatever is the only way people will commission young writers
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Every young writer's published article be like "Me, me, me, I, I, I, me, my, mine, me, me, me, I". Rest assured no one is interested in you more than you are.
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@richmg_ They want a Gail’s and a blank street and a third space on every corner with giant new builds towering into the sky in between
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Weird how these urbanist types don't actually like cities very much x.com/g_f_red/status…
Gareth@g_f_red
It doesnt get more 'Yes In My Backyard' than going on Google maps to say a place that you clearly dont live in is a shithole that ought to be demolished, so that people who can pay £700k for a flat can live near Shoreditch. Get Out Of Your Own Backyard.
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Batman doesn’t buy the Sun I guess
VENGEANCE🦇@BatSource1
The Batman Part 2 will soon begin filming in The Birkenhead Tunnel in Liverpool
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@Uhmactually2205 @JosephStash @GSpellchecker No one liked his Superman and no one cared about the Witcher show. He just released a movie this past weekend that was an astronomical bomb. He is irrelevant except to chuds only Twitter
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I've no real interest in a Supergirl movie. The trailer looks like fairly standard safe-action-comedy CGI superhero fare to me. But I like movies, so genuinely, good luck to them.
What has been interesting, though, is watching its lead star, Milly Alcock, seemingly fail to understand the assignment. It's not even that what she said was necessarily wrong. The point is that her job right now isn't to be "right" about everything. It's to help sell a product that cost hundreds of millions of dollars to as many people as possible.
Stars of massive studio films really need media coaching on how to avoid picking fights while promoting a movie.
It should begin with understanding that saying anything which can be perceived as attacking your audience is a really, really bad move.
When asked about "fan backlash", it shouldn't be difficult to give some version of:
"I love this character, and we put everything into making this film. I'm excited for fans to see it. I understand people can be passionate and opinionated, but that passion is why we get to make these movies in the first place".
Easy. Isn't it?
Making movies is a team sport. They require the blood, sweat and tears of thousands of people, most of whom you'll never know by name. The lead actor should be going to bat for every single one of them every time they step in front of the press. This means doing your best to be as likeable to as many people as possible.
Variety@Variety
Milly Alcock addresses the backlash she received after saying that “simply existing as a woman is something that people comment on. We have become very comfortable having this weird ownership of women’s bodies.” “I didn’t even say ‘men’ — I said ‘people!’” Alcock says. “And they got so angry. I was like, ‘You’re proving my point. You’re proving my point!’” “And [the backlash] is from a lot of people whose profiles have no photo, who are burner accounts. Or someone’s name and then ‘Dad of four, Christian,’ which is hilarious to me. But I mean, whose opinion do you really care about? If you’re pissing the right kind of people off, you’re doing OK.” wp.me/pc8uak-1lHi9I
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@GSpellchecker Why do you losers always love this mediocre guy so much
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@g_f_red I like that he posted this photo to prove something and it just looks like a normal high st. Meanwhile people who are actually from the area know that it has changed massively over the past 20 years, much safer, with a mixture of new and old alongside each other
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@CPFCBen2008 Tbf that guy seems like a complete tool I think it’s fair game
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What gets me with Eze, when he won the FA Cup he was wearing someone’s grandads shirt in honour of him, now he has left and joined Arsenal he has started to become insufferable #CPFC
Blue Moon@FRBlueMoon
🚨🆕 Gabriel et Eze se moquent du supporter de City sur Instagram.
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@LedgerLomasM “The squalid rye lane” *posts photo of completely normal looking high street*
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When I see the photos of Rye Lane that are meant to instill disgust and indignation, I merely feel nostalgia for the most interesting place I ever lived.
Sam Bowman@s8mb
Peckham is 20 mins from Shoreditch by rail and includes some of south London's loveliest streets and parks. It is baffling that some people think that the squalid Rye Lane, below, is something to try to preserve instead of trying to bring up to the standard of its surroundings.
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Just watched a bit of The Boys for the first time ever and it’s like if Alan Moore had added captions saying SUPERHEROES ARE MORALLY COMPROMISED to every frame of Watchmen. So bad, do we even have subtlety in the mainstream anymore.
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