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@Masedawg77 Krimbo’s path to the 2028 presidency starts here

There’s a new sheriff in town

Photographs from Wim Wenders' road trip while location scouting for PARIS, TEXAS.

@jurassicseb @SpectacleNYC This looks so rad, I gotta see it

see heiko’s world at @SpectacleNYC this month its the best movie ever made about a guy playing darts to save up for his mom’s eye surgery

@ChangoChutney Basket Case rocks

my fave October first watches the hidden (1987) a different man (2024) saw (2004) evil toons (1992) basket case (1982) psycho ii (1980)

@sordijinger Tim’s team lost already 😔

tim robinson !!!!!! no !!!!!!!!

Sort of reflecting on how THE BRUTALIST and NICKEL BOYS are probably our two most significant films this year. Wildly ambitious conceptualizations executed with precise, innovative craft & a devotion to confronting dark truths of mid-20th Century America. Decade defining art.

Tonight’s slate: THE BRUTALIST 35mm CLOUD

Devastating, though maybe the most essential and formally groundbreaking film of the 21st Century thus far. A foundational piece of cinema.

@MugenTalks Gorgeous place! Thrilled I get to see some of my most anticipated films of the year in there over the next couple of days.

Seated for @ Chicago Film Festival

A Different Man: I loved The Substance, but this is the essential self-hatred text of 2024. Effortlessly smart, a movie with a million layers underneath a cruel, nasty joke of getting exactly what you want. Sebastian Stan and Adam Pearson are unbelievable.

@morrisoncrying Hoping the Hoosiers win the title this year after that beat down Nebraska took yesterday.

“Indiana ranked higher than Alabama” is the type of thing that makes me believe Saban is crafting his escape from Elba at this very moment

@RomeForReal For sure! That’s sort of what I’m getting at in my rambling, mostly that because the dolly is a fundamental tool, it’s prevalent in AI art not because it’s necessary but because it is just replicating what is common.

@_equinn I can understand where those people are coming from but the main difference being that for most generative AI, this kind of style of a dolly in is the NORM, the default, where in the language of film, it's merely a word of a sentence in the much longer narrative, ifykwim

Those who say this looks like AI made it simply lack an understanding of film as language, how complex that language is, AND why “cinematic” AI art really isn’t cinematic even though it will overuse simple (yet fundamental) parts of that language- in this case, a dolly in.

So, as this trailer is edited using multiple dolly-in establishing shots (that AI art often tries to replicate), people are conflating a real knowledge of craft with AI art’s oversimplification of cinematic art & language.

A lot of “cinematic” AI art you see on the internet are misty, fantasy lands & characters, paired with some sort of simple movement, be it dolly in, out & across, etc. The dolly is so effective in the language of cinema because it draws the viewer in & adds depth to a frame.

@DarthGroudon I’m headed to Chicago Film Festival next week 🎉

@cevangelista413 Seeing CLOUD in a couple weeks. The man was working overtime this year!

Still a few months to go, but no other horror movie this year has been as good as Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s CHIME

I have been waiting for these to return to stores for years.

@morrisoncrying Nice dude!