tori-lynne 🧙🏾‍♀️

my last two outings at AMC village 7 have had at least one person show up 10 minutes late to the movie, sit in the first three rows, and spend most of the time on their phone

Don’t just wear a mask again because Hantavirus is in the news, it might not be for long, and you need to protect yourself after the media moves on from it. Wear a mask because Covid destroys the immune system, attacks the heart, damages the brain, and compounds the damage to your body with each infection. Wear a mask because you want to be healthy and live longer, and because the last few years you and most of the people you know have been the sickest you’ve ever been in your life. Wear a mask again because there was no reason to stop in the first place.

Are you cruel when you’re scared, or do you take even greater care to be kind? Something we’re all going to learn about ourselves in the coming years if we haven’t already. Something to pay attention to!

“I can’t do another pandemic.” Really? Because most of you haven’t cared about the current one that’s been happening for six years now. Covid causes cancer, embolisms, strokes, and heart attacks, and you can’t be bothered to mask with THAT.

I fucking love going to the movies. I love a bunch of strangers sitting in a big room and staring at one of the walls for hours! I love 24 pictures being projected at the wall per second! I love that shit!!

Keep your creative momentum going this year, at all costs

May all the Black Writers crack open Google Docs or Final Draft and write that future Best Original Screenplay #Oscars

big win for blasians tonight ✊🏽

@MovieKessler Dolphins 4K remaster WHEN

They should release all those original Imax documentaries on 4K discs.

thank you to mayor zohran mamdani for taking the scaffolding off my beautiful amc lincoln square with his own two bare hands

Hearing Only I Will Remain in an empty theatre at night will always be the thing that healed me

Sam Raimi isn’t the person that made me want to make movies, he’s the one who made be believe that I could.

Definitely the wildest reveal of the evening

at a time when we’re more isolated from each other than ever, the theatrical experience has never been more important. they may not be perfect, but theaters are some of the few places left that bring people of all walks of life together to escape whatever we endure in the day-to-day and allow us to laugh as one, cry as one, feel as one, and belong to something bigger than ourselves. even if you’re there alone, you’re never truly alone. theaters are an essential cornerstone of every community, and i shudder to think of a future without them - one where the sadness and division that already corrupts our culture has increased tenfold and further eroded our empathy. the erasure of the theatrical experience isn’t just anti-art, it’s anti-humanity.

nosferatu (2024) / wanderer above the sea of fog (1818) by caspar friedrich

This kind of message always gets construed as “look how accessible this camera is” when it should actually be “look at how composition, production design, lighting, wardrobe, and locations are so much more important than any specific camera.” It encourages me to work harder!

"an idea, a feeling became clear to me. the hunter did not hate the wolf. the wolf did not hate the sheep. but violence felt inevitable between them. perhaps, i thought, this was the way of the world."

Being an artist, whether your are a writer, painter, musician etc: it feels like having an answer, abstract and indescribable in words but very clear in your mind, but then struggling to come up with the question for it, for months or years. The resulting artwork is the question. And it's this constant battle, how to contextualize these answers that seemingly come out of nowhere, into a medium that can be understood by yourself and others. And the question is never perfect, it's adjacent to good, or close. So the artists try again, and again. I understand why they take to vices so much. They need a distraction from this unresolved feeling that they are continually working out but can never get exactly right.

While playing Baby Steps my character slid down a muddy slope and slammed his back into a rock. He didn't get up immediately and laid still like this for about ten minutes until my input prompted him to get back up. I'm sure there's a metaphor here somewhere.

David Lynch's drawing of what happens during Transcendantal Meditation