@bartlebytaco funniest possible messenger for the message "sentences should be more interesting"
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Michael Landes
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Michael Landes
@mcllds
playwright / dramaturg / performer free Palestine
New York Entrou em Ocak 2021
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every time i see this guy talk he's reaching new levels of malcolm gladwell-esque sophistry and pedantry
David Perell Clips@PerellClips
"We've been homogenizing writing since long before AI." Ocean Vuong says: "It coincided with the rise of the newspaper. The newspaper needed to be standardized after the Civil War because it was completely reckless. Exclamation marks were everywhere. Sure it was beautiful but for information delivery, it was terrible. So the English started to become tamed. It became efficient. It went for clarity. It had to have enough brevity to keep room for advertising. And this comes from the newspaper model. There are plenty of works that are written beautifully from that but it's done incredible damage to young writers' imaginations because the sentence has now been so timid."
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@pourfairelevide i'm the last soldier defending certain murakami books but to read him but not Henry James because of his treatment of women is
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saw this exchange and blacked out for several minutes
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@okaypompeii I watched brighter summer day like six months ago and had a trauma dream about it like two weeks ago and now I can’t stop thinking about it
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criterion flash sale with a $10 voucher. should I get A Brighter Summer Day, or Frownland (both unseen)
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@jpbrammer It’s important for our society that people strive not to be the third person mentioned in a Jenna Maroney line
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@cd_hooks Cormac McCarthy laughed at the “you know how I know you’re gay” scene in the 40 year old virgin
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I really don’t need to know this stuff. Thanks though 🙏🏻
Vincenzo Barney@BarneysRubble0
Cormac McCarthy was also a huge fan of Napoleon Dynamite.
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@kiwiyuno tbf robocop was mogging the entire film, that's part of why it's a 5 star
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looked at the lowest rated reviews of my top four here are the highlights
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more or less what Don Quixote's about
Oliver Dahl@OliverWDahl
The more I think about this the funnier it gets
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@abs_sweetmarie of course! much like Vertigo, this film features a man and at least one tree
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Eagle eyed viewers might catch a subtle reference to Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.
Jennifer Lawrence Source@jlawsupdate
Jennifer Lawrence & Leonardo DiCaprio on the set of Martin Scorsese’s ‘WHAT HAPPENS AT NIGHT’ yesterday. 📸 [via Blesk]
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If Scorsese's new movie is like 100 minutes long it'll freak everyone out
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@swen_ryan sebastian stan has a small role as a child in Haneke's 71 Fragments of a Chronology of Chance
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Paweł Pawlikowski directing Emily Blunt in her feature film debut is the kind of fact that seems nigh impossible given where their respective careers have gone
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@Baileymoon15 Interesting quirk of the NYC on "Seinfeld" is that it appears to be mostly made up of soundstages in imitation of apartments and other locations
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i love when it’s painfully obvious someone has watched 10 episodes of a show
Jacob Shell@JacobAShell
Interesting quirk of the NYC on "Seinfeld" is there's no Brooklyn. The only "Outer Boro" that has presence on the show is Queens as a natural habitat for George's screaming white-ethnic parents.
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pretty dumb question if you know anything about dance (and i don't know much about dance, but still)
Janus Films@janusfilms
Is there a director who successfully helmed film, opera, and ballet productions?
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@pogmeat turning a big dial labeled Samurai and constantly looking back at the audience for approval
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no no no this is far too many samurai, is there any film that exists that consists of maybe four fewer samurai?
Juan Alegre-Arnau@arnau_alegre
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@ClodiaMET @intothecrevasse Being related to people with a certain job does not automatically mean thinking highly of that job, this shouldn’t be shocking news to anyone
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@mcllds @intothecrevasse He's immediately adjacent to that space though. He probably hears it from his sister and mother daily.
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Interesting situation with ol’ Timmé, wherein those attached to the high arts have taken an “only I can say that about my sibling!” stance upon seeing a movie star voice sentiments everyone in the nonprofit arts space repeats multiple times every day
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@Kulambq hold the phone is joyce really the first one to put that together? if so that's wild
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@tylergilfoster This has led me to discover that every word is capitalized in the plot summary for The Hit List on wikipedia. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hit_L…
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They are asking questions in Facebook movie groups that have never been asked before
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@arvofart it's one thing to be part of the opera/ballet worlds and talk about how no one cares about it and it's another to be a multimillionaire movie star with no interest in them talking about them as something to avoid
not that it's worth being upset about, but it is a different thing
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This isn’t worth complaining about, especially if, like a lot of people aghast by this clip, you don’t listen to much opera
Seth Abramovitch@SethAbramovitch
Ok I did not hear this. This sucks
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