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@trimsplicecut Bulk of it sounds like just adding tools for searching metadata.

Not quite sure what this means, but it sounds important

@intothecrevasse David Bordwell could've written a great blog about this, alas.

I was never really a semiotics guy, but what would you call the phenomenon of dumb AI image-gen slop being actually fabricated and sold in real life, where does this leave the signifier and signified

@WillSloanEsq "I didn't just dislike it - I turned off after 45 minutes" is a very Chatgpt-esque sentence.

Checking in on Jeffrey Wells' Hollywood Elsewhere blog for the latest in Tinseltown news and gossip

@Futurhythm I'm sure it'll be as accurate as this headline from 2023

In an interview with Peter Chan's wife Sandra Ng a few years back, she said that unlike her, he likes going to stuffy parties at country clubs full of rich expats who only speak English.

@CaveOfCult @indicatorseries Kino put it on bluray 7 years ago

Like Father.....Like Son. Incredible Bava preorders from @indicatorseries Four Times That Night may be the most neglected Mario Bava title,only available on cut DVD and grubby grey market DVD rips ... until now!

@celluloidslime @JakeTropila Dick Cheney's dead

@JakeTropila hallelujah

To the tune of “It’s Raining Men”: DICK CHENEY’S DEAD!

@DeclouxJ Counterpoint, Mimic is his best overall track

FACT: The most fun Guillermo Del Toro commentary tracks are when he does them with someone else (BLADE II, DRAGONSLAYER, MAD GOD, theatrical HELLBOY one). Bring back Del Toro riffing about how stupid the screenwriters' script was!

@RossWBermanIV Cat People is right there

Curtis Sliwa Criterion Picks: -Malcolm X [followed by the most fascinating, politically incoherent take of all time] -King of New York [mostly talks about how good Ms. 45 is/getting shot by the Gambinos] -The Shape of Water ["The woman, this fish, they love each other so much."]

@Kriegler007 Ennio just looped one note and put his feet up and it rules

Checking out WHO SAW HER DIE and George Lazenby is dubbed by an American, which is beyond Hilary Bray levels of distracting. But on this plus side, he's absolutely rocking that knitwear...

@JorCru @tedkoppel13 Every time Reese Witherspoon talks about NFTs or AI she just sounds like someone trying to pretend her bank account getting bigger is some sort of social movement.

@tedkoppel13 Funding films is INCREDIBLY difficult. In terms of the NFTs, I'm not gonna drag someone for seeing what's going on and trying to get a little ahead on the curve of another way to bring in financing. The entire premise of filmmaking is built on speculation. Can't win every bet.

I do think it's critical to recognize that if someone with her own very successful production company and who is still busy and working at an A-List level is saying "the change is here," re: AI she's not kidding around. It can't be stopped, so it must be managed.

@WillSloanEsq Maybe Maher will watch that after Bicycle Thief

Listening to Woody Allen on Club Random. They mention that he dated Diane Keaton and both her sisters. He’s like Terence Stamp in Teorama.

@ExtendedClipPod Same vibe

tomorrow, the good doctor returns

@leucocrystal @jailedamanda Private equity doing what private equity does

@jailedamanda I had a sneaking suspicion that A24 working so hard for so long to pimp themselves out via merchandising everything and getting people cheerleading so hard for them was destined to have a really sinister end result, and this very much feels of a piece with that

@BrndnStrssng For some reason John Woo films seem to bring out the worst. People laughed through Bullet in the Head at Sundays on Fire.

We gotta start beating NYC audiences with sticks though. I don’t know what else to do. It’s one thing to hoot and holler but I think too many of you are incapable of not letting us all know how funny you are.

The Killer was the only major John Woo film I’d never seen and I’m so glad I waited for the big screen. Unquestionably his masterpiece. Danny Lee’s cop being immediately horny for Chow Yun-Fat’s “empathetic eyes” is what dreams are made of. Melodramatic action perfection. Wow.

@TheLewisTan @TimesSqKungFu Why fire the editor? Why not the person giving notes?

@TimesSqKungFu Correct. That editor is gone.

The editing is what ruined the first one, which had good choreography. This happened to Snake Eyes as well which had the legendary choreographer who collabs with Donnie Yen, Kenji. I’ll wait when I see it in theaters. Not trusting a trailer.

@ScreenSlate Tell me more about the remote controls

Nearly every modern acclaimed "indie" filmmaker, including Oscar nominees, does some combination of secret commercial work and selling old remote controls on eBay to afford rent.

@theoceanblooms Meanwhile a few paragraphs above the Lionsgate guy is like "we can convert a preexisting movie into anime in 3 hours." Alright, where is it then?

It’s kind of hilarious how unrealistic these kinds of promises are. I wonder how many people in Hollywood are going to get caught out investing in something that can never deliver.

@DeclouxJ A lot of people use plex these days.

I heard someone on a podcast recently say, "Ha! Remember VLC?" and I was like, "REMEMBER? Isn't that something everyone uses 12 hours a day?

@GrahamC47 On par with Rogan being astonished Fritz Lang named a movie M

Ben Affleck: Editing a movie is about iteration. It’s a long process for a reason. Theo Von: That’s wild. It’s like. That’s so true. You never really think about that while watching a movie, you know? That it’s been edited a certain way.

@RasberryRazz People watching Heat to remember Val Kilmer

Why does this have over a thousand likes?